Articles by Sikivu Hutchinson

Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson is an educator, author, and filmmaker. Her writing credits include Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels and Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars….

“Are We Black, Proud and Socialist?”

In answer to Jim Jones’ resonating question, Sikivu Hutchinson has written a novel that defiantly shouts Yes! White Nights, Black Paradise frames Peoples Temple and Jonestown within an African-American perspective,…

A Monumental Problem:
Memorializing the Jonestown Dead

…Announces New Foundation.” the jonestown report, 9 (2007). Hutchinson, Sikivu. “No More White Saviors: Jonestown and Peoples Temple in the Black Feminist Imagination.” the jtr bulletin (2014). Hutchinson, Sikivu. White…

Jonestown Journal

…a significant panel discussion organized by Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco last summer. But I want to note that there were multiple…

Fictional Cults Lack Verisimilitude

…Paradise: A Novel Fred D’Aguiar HarperCollins 384 pp, 2015 White Nights, Black Paradise Sikivu Hutchinson Infidel Books, paper 325 pp, 2015 Jonestown Wilson Harris Faber & Faber (UK) 1997 Charlie…

Memory Thieves:
Beyond the White Gaze of Jonestown

…“crunch[ing] us into other peoples’ fantasies.” (A trailer for Sikivu Hutchinson’s short film, White Nights, Black Paradise, appears on Vimeo. The film itself was screened on March 24, 2017, at…