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Geographies of race and religion -- Sacred time and divine histories -- Religio-racial self-fashioning -- Maintaining the religio-racial body -- Making the religio-racial family -- The religio-racial politics of space and place -- Community, conflict, and the boundaries of Black religion

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The New York System -- 2 The Larger Landscape -- 3 Inside the Institutions: Foundlings, Orphans, Delinquents -- 4 Outside the Institutions: Pensions, Precaution, Prevention -- 5 Catholic Charities, the Great Depression, and the New Deal -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Contours of Black Intellectual History (Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer) -- Part I. Black Internationalism -- Introduction (Michael O. West) -- "Every Wide-Awake Negro Teacher of French Should Know": The Pedagogies of Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century (Celeste Day Moore) -- Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the New Negro Renaissance: Bernardo Ruiz Suárez's The Color Question in the Two Americas (Reena N. Goldthree) -- "To Start Something to Help These People": African American Women and the Occupation of Haiti, 1915- 1934 (Brandon R. Byrd) -- Part II. Religion and Spirituality -- Introduction (Judith Weisenfeld) -- Isolated Believer: Alain Locke, Baha'i Secularist (David Weinfeld) -- The New Negro Renaissance and African American Secularism (Christopher Cameron) -- "I Had a Praying Grandmother": Religion, Prophetic Witness, and Black Women's Herstories (LeRhonda S. Manigault- Bryant) -- Part III. Racial Politics and Struggles for Social Justice -- Introduction (Pero Gaglo Dagbovie) -- Historical Ventriloquy: Black Thought and Sexual Politics in the Interracial Marriage of Frederick Douglass (Guy Emerson Mount) -- Reigning Assimilationists and Defiant Black Power: The Struggle to Define and Regulate Racist Ideas (Ibram X. Kendi) -- Becoming African Women: Women's Cultural Nationalist Theorizing in the US Organization and the Committee for Unified Newark (Ashley D. Farmer) -- Part IV. Black Radicalism -- Introduction (Robin D. G. Kelley) -- Runaways, Rescuers, and the Politics of Breaking the Law (Christopher Bonner) -- Conspiracies, Seditions, Rebellions: Concepts and Categories in the Study of Slave Resistance (Gregory Childs) -- African American Expats, Guyana, and the Pan- African Ideal in the 1970s (Russell Rickford) -- Contributors -- Index