![]() I want readers to come away with an understanding of the complexity with which religion and racial identity have been intertwined for people of African descent in the United States. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Like Fauset, I was interested in how migration and urbanization shaped the religious worlds of African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants, but questions about the intersection of religion and racial identity frame my project. ![]() ![]() ![]() New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migrationįeb 2017I chose to focus on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine’s Peace Mission, and congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, all early twentieth-century urban black religious movements in which founders, leaders, and members embraced new ways of thinking about the relationship of religion to racial identity. ![]()
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