{"id":55127,"date":"2017-11-12T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55127"},"modified":"2017-11-12T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T23:30:14","slug":"rethinking-religion-and-race-in-the-great-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55127","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Perspectives<\/a>
\n2017-09-27<\/p>\n

Emily Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
\nGonzaga University, Spokane, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nProphet Noble Drew Ali<\/a> (standing center) and temple members, at religious service of the Moorish Science Temple of America<\/a>, circa late 1920s (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This post is part of our online roundtable<\/a> on Judith Weisenfeld\u2019s <\/em>New World A-Coming<\/a><\/p>\n

Judith Weisenfeld\u2019s<\/a> New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration<\/em><\/a> is, in short, a marvelous book. With its focus on the Moorish Science Temple of America<\/a> (MST), the Nation of Islam<\/a> (NOI), Father Divine\u2019s Peace Mission Movement<\/a> (PM), and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Weisenfeld challenges much of the previous scholarship by moving these groups from the margins to the center. She pushes the field to rethink its approach to religion and race<\/a>, opening multiple avenues for future scholars..<\/p>\n

…One of my favorite ways to appreciate a new book is to consider how it has re-shaped my thinking about my own work. My first book<\/a> looked at the Afro-Creole community in New Orleans<\/a>. No one characteristic differentiated Afro-Creoles<\/a> from other southern blacks. Much of the city\u2019s Afro-Creole population belonged to Catholic, educated, often mixed-race, French-speaking or bilingual families who were freed during the colonial<\/a> or antebellum era<\/a> and who were often wealthier than their Black, non-creole neighbors. When writing in response to W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>, local historian Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes<\/a> noted a distinction between Afro-Creoles and other Black Americans. Desdunes wrote, \u201cOne aspires to equality, the other to identity. One forgets he is a Negro in order to think that he is a man; the other will forget that he is a man in order to think that he is a Negro…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judith Weisenfeld\u2019s “New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration” is, in short, a marvelous book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,820,20],"tags":[10229,24715,27611,25301,27609,27610],"class_list":["post-55127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-emily-clark","tag-emily-suzanne-clark","tag-father-divines-peace-mission-movement","tag-judith-weisenfeld","tag-moorish-science-temple-of-america","tag-nation-of-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55128,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127\/revisions\/55128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}