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Author Drake, Jamil W., author.

Title To know the soul of a people : religion, race, and the making of the Southern folk / Jamil W. Drake
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color)
Summary '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 'folk' practices that needed to be reformed. Their framing of the religious cultures of rural blacks planted the seeds to the later idea of the 'culture of poverty'
Notes Also issued in print: 2022
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed December 27, 2022)
Subject African Americans -- Study and teaching.
African Americans -- Religious life -- Southern States
African Americans -- Folklore
Poor African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Rural African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Folk religion -- Southern States
Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Folklore.
African Americans
African Americans -- Study and teaching
Ethnology
Folk religion
Race relations
Sociology
SUBJECT Southern States -- Religious life and customs
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form Folklore
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190082727
0190082720