The religio-racial metaphysical imagination, however varied, was particular to the conditions of Black people. The goal was to detach them…
Judith Weisenfeld
Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (NYU, 2016), Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (California, 2007), and African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard, 1997). Her current research focuses on psychiatry, race, and African American religions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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February 28, 2020
In the television series Person of Interest, the protagonists navigate the streets of New York City in a dystopic present…