To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religious and cultural practices of the black communities as
To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religious and cultural practices of the black communities as
Jamil W. Drake is Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He teaches and researches in the area of American Religious History, with a specific concentration in African-American religion and politics. His work explores the relationship between race, science, and state governance.
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* Preface: The Legacy of Hampton: Folk, Religion, and Classifying the Cabin People * Introduction * Chapter 1: Moralizing the Folk: The Negro Problem, Racial Heredity, and Religion in the Progressive Era * Chapter 2: Assimilating the Folk: White Southern Liberals, Revival Religion, and Regional Isolation * Chapter 3: Medicalizing the Folk: Superstitions, Family, and Germs in the Venereal Disease Control Program * Chapter 4: Saving the Folk: Cultural Lag and the Southern Roots of the Religion of Poverty * Chapter 5: Preserving the Folk: Folk Songs and the Irony of Romanticism * Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Religion of Southern Folk * Bibliography * Index *
* Preface: The Legacy of Hampton: Folk, Religion, and Classifying the Cabin People * Introduction * Chapter 1: Moralizing the Folk: The Negro Problem, Racial Heredity, and Religion in the Progressive Era * Chapter 2: Assimilating the Folk: White Southern Liberals, Revival Religion, and Regional Isolation * Chapter 3: Medicalizing the Folk: Superstitions, Family, and Germs in the Venereal Disease Control Program * Chapter 4: Saving the Folk: Cultural Lag and the Southern Roots of the Religion of Poverty * Chapter 5: Preserving the Folk: Folk Songs and the Irony of Romanticism * Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Religion of Southern Folk * Bibliography * Index *
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