New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Geographies of race and religion -- 2. Sacred time and divine histories -- 3. Religio- racial self- fashioning -- 4. Maintaining the religio- racial body -- 5. Making the religio- racial family -- 6. The religi...

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Main Author: Weisenfeld, Judith (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Further subjects:B United States / 20th Century / HISTORY
B African Americans Religion 20th century
B African Americans - Religion - History - 20th century
B African Americans Race identity History 20th century
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Geographies of race and religion -- 2. Sacred time and divine histories -- 3. Religio- racial self- fashioning -- 4. Maintaining the religio- racial body -- 5. Making the religio- racial family -- 6. The religio- racial politics of space and place -- 7. Community, conflict, and the boundaries of black religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate todayWhen Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did not make us Negroes,” declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members. The book demonstrates that the efforts by members of these movements to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America about the nature of racial identity and the collective future of black people that still resonate today
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ISBN:1479853682
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18574/9781479853687