Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life

Crediting God ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 285-304
Author(s):  
Eddie Glaude
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Political Life ◽  
American Christianity

scholarly journals Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931–1993

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 400
Author(s):  
Yvonne Chireau
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion

Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity, Islam, Africana (African diaspora) religions, and folk traditions such as Hoodoo and Conjure in the 20th century. Even though the treatment of Black religions in the comics was informed by stereotypical depictions of race and religion in United States (US) popular culture, African American comics creators contested these by offering alternatives in their treatment of Black religion themes.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Us ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Food Decisions ◽  
Major Argument

The introduction lays out the major argument that food practices are an understudied but significant form of African American cultural and political behaviour. Throughout the twentieth century, race leaders saw food production and consumption as key mechanisms that could be used to perform and construct ideas about their relationship to the US nation state as well as to a stateless black nation. The issue of black political and national identification was particularly urgent in the post-Emancipation moment. However, this book demonstrates that culinary nationalism continued to animate African American political life throughout the next century and beyond. This examination of food habits also yields insights into the felt, bodily experiences of individuals who did not make these decisions out of political calculation alone but out of concern for their health and quality of life. Although all of the subjects of this volume agreed that food decisions were crucial, their ideas about which foods the race should eat often differed.

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