After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 by
Looks at the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than any other by blacks living in this era, the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta.
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era by
Describes southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant expressive forms, and profound faith of believers in the region.
Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Post-Emancipation Virginia (Online) by
Challenges the idea of black churches as having always been politically engaged. Using local archives, church and convention minutes, and innovative Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, Turner reveals how freed people in Virginia adapted strategies for pursuing the freedom of their souls to worship as they saw fit--and to participate in society completely in the evolving landscape of emancipation.
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North by
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches.
Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform by
An account of how black churches have helped shape American society.
Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow (Online) by
Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case study, it tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism.
Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign by
An analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges.
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by
Argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it is a story of the power of religious tradition. Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern liberals' faith in the power of human reason to overcome prejudice was at odds with the movement's goal of immediate change.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by
Argues that it was de jure segregation-the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments-that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age before Brown by
Focusing on the political development of the South between 1910 and 1954, Johnson considers the genuine efforts by white and black progressives to reform the system without destroying it. Consequently, white progressives tried to install a better--meaning more equitable--separate-but-equal system, and elite black reformers focused on ameliorative (rather than confrontational) solutions that would improve the lives of African Americans.
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South (Online) by
An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow.
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by
A reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers
The Color of Christ: The Son of God & the Saga of Race in America (Online) by
Looks at various American dreams and visions—from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations—to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice.
God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by
Traces the political effects of the religious intermingling with race. A panoramic history that reveals the profound role of religion in American political history and in American discourse on race and social justice.
Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism,1865-1898 (Online) by
Focuses on the vital role that religion played in reunifying northern and southern whites into a racially segregated society. Tells the story of how northern Protestantism, once the catalyst for racial egalitarianism, promoted the image of a "white republic" that conflated whiteness, godliness, and nationalism.
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement (Online) by
Identifies a network of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy. Their religious perspectives and methods of moral reasoning developed theological blueprints for the classical phase of the Civil Rights Movement.
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