Black Religious and Political Cultures of the Southern and Northern United States After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915

摘要

A focus on the religious and political creativity of the oppressed links the threenbooks under review here. John M. Giggie’s After Redemption analyzes AfricannAmerican political, religious, and cultural life in the Mississippi and ArkansasnDelta from the 1870s through the 1910s, a period known as the nadir of blacknpolitical life, while Mary Rolinson’s Grassroots Garveyism studies the samenregion during the 1920s. Both do a meticulous job of excavating thenworldviews of their black Southern subjects. Marie W. Dallam’s DaddynGrace is a respectable piece of scholarship but is not in the same league asnGiggie’s and Rolinson’s works. It is limited by Dallam’s (false) claim to anninsider perspective, which boils down to a refusal to subject Grace or hisnHouse of Prayer to critical analysis.