To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk

ISBN-13: 9780190082697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Assistant Profess Jamil W. (Assistant Professor of Religion

Recenzje

Jamil Drake follows Depression-era social scientists who spread across the rural U.S. South-particularly the Black rural South-in search of an explanation for its entrenched poverty and resistance to modernization. They found 'folk religion,' a category that challenged biological racism but entrenched a cultural critique of poor black southerners that remains with us. This is a timely, sobering, and important book

O autorze

Jamil W. Drake is Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He teaches and researches in the area of American Religious History, with a specific concentration in African-American religion and politics. His work explores the relationship between race, science, and state governance.