Religion and the rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans / James B. Bennett.

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Bennett, James B, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, �2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1400880173
9781400880171
9780691170848
0691170843

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

305.8/009763/3509034 22

LOC classification:

F379.N59 N4 2005eb

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BO 5955
BO 5955.

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Interracial Methodism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 2. Instituting Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 3. The Decline of Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 4. Renegotiating Black Methodist Identity; CHAPTER 5. Interracial Catholicism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 6. The Decline of Interracial Catholicism; CHAPTER 7. Renegotiating Black Catholic Identity; EPILOGUE. Religion and Baseball in New Orleans; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

Summary: Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.

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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.

English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-297) and index.

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