Religion - AAIHS

African Spirituality and the Power of Religious Reclamation

October 9, 2017October 11, 2017 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, religion, West Africa

Return to the moment you first saw Beyoncé emerge through the iron doors in the golden-yellow gown as water flows

The Promise of Patriarchy: A New Book on Women and the Nation of Islam

October 9, 2017October 12, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Nation of Islam

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Crowd applauding Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, 1974. Photo: Environmental Protection Agency/National Archives and Records Administration.

Writing a New History of Black Religion: An Author’s Response

September 30, 2017November 5, 2017 Judith Weisenfeld #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Black women, Immigration, religion, research

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming One afternoon while sitting in the Schomburg Center reading

The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities

September 29, 2017October 1, 2017 Tisa Wenger #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s exhaustively researched and analytically brilliant new book,

Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial