New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration

by Judith Weisenfeld

Book Overview

Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions

Shows how early 20th-century resistance to 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479865850
• ISBN13: 9781479865857
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"