In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression.
A unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed attempts to preserve the postwar fort, and the events which led to its almost total destruction.
Based on extensive interviews with mostly former cult members, this book chronicles the history of the Church of God of Union Assembly... Læs mere
Argues that eighteenth-century White Baptists in South Carolina used the Bible to fashion a Christian model of slavery that... Læs mere
Filling a significant gap in scholarly literature concerning race and hockey within US history, White Ice is a response to two simple questions: How did a cold-climate sport like hockey end up in a majority Black city in the Deep South? And why did it come when it did?