{"product_id":"new-world-acoming-black-religion-and-racial-identity-during-the-great-migration-9781479888801","title":"New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions  Demonstrates that the efforts to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today. 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 Divines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651940442165,"sku":"ByrdShop_147988880X","price":34.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781479888801.jpg?v=1781846428","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/new-world-acoming-black-religion-and-racial-identity-during-the-great-migration-9781479888801","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}