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Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
Eddie S. Jr Glaude
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Paperback. This work shows how the biblical story of suffering and the journey to redemption inspired a pragmatic tradition of racial advocacy among African Americans in the early 19th century. It compares the historical uses of Exodus by black and white Americans and the concepts on "nation" it generated. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; GTB; HR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
No other story in the Bible has fired the imagination of African Americans quike like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil. "Exodus!" shows how this biblical story inspired a pragmatic tradition of racial advocacy among African Americans in the early 19th century - a tradition based not on race but on a moral politics of respectability. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., begins by comparing the historical uses of Exodus by black and white Americans and the concepts of "nation" it generated. He ... Read more
No other story in the Bible has fired the imagination of African Americans quike like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil. "Exodus!" shows how this biblical story inspired a pragmatic tradition of racial advocacy among African Americans in the early 19th century - a tradition based not on race but on a moral politics of respectability. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., begins by comparing the historical uses of Exodus by black and white Americans and the concepts of "nation" it generated. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226298207
SKU
V9780226298207
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