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

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

Judith Weisenfeld

4.9/5 (31080 ratings)

Description:When 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration. To get started finding New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 147988880X

Description: When 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration. To get started finding New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

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

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

More Books

Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake

Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake

[This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography] (By: Judith Weisenfeld) [published: August, 1996]

[This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography] (By: Judith Weisenfeld) [published: August, 1996]

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949

African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945

African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 by Judith Weisenfeld (2007-06-08)

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 by Judith Weisenfeld (2007-06-08)

Movements, Motions, Moments: Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Double Exposure, 8)

Movements, Motions, Moments: Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Double Exposure, 8)

This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography

This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography

Vernacular Religion Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano

Vernacular Religion Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano