Kimberly Akano
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Akano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Akano |
| SIGNATURE | AKANO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Disciplines and Disruptions
WITHOUT A PRAYER: RELIGION AND RACE IN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By Leslie Beth Ribovich. New York: New York University Press, 2024. Pp. vii + 241. Paperback, $30.00. With great clarity and archival precision, Leslie Ribovich explores how the co-construction of religion and race shaped American public education during the 1950s and 1960s. Where many previous studies have focused on the intersection of religion, race, and education in the US S…
“That’s Jesus’s Intent, and That Was Our Intent Too!”
In this essay, I analyze the intersection of African migration, race, and Christianity in the United States to highlight the 1960s as a pivotal moment of African immigrant influence on US missions. Rather than serving as pawns in a US-centric debate about race and missions, African immigrants were key players given their firsthand racialized encounters and their efforts to link racial discord in the US with US missions in Africa. By situating thi…
Undocumented Saints
Reviewed by: Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions by William A. Calvo-Quirós Kimberly Akano William A. Calvo-Quirós, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) Scholars of American religion and migration have long argued that migrant communities take their religious practices with them when they move to a new place. In Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devoti…
Black Women and Historical Wellness
Black Women and Historical Wellness Kimberly Akano (bio) Stephanie Evans's Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, Albany: SUNY Press, 2021 Amid individual, interpersonal, and sociopolitical stressors, what resources have Black women leveraged to care for themselves and their communities? For some like Harriet Jacobs or Angela Davis, stretching served as a lifeline for dealing with physical confinement during periods of enslavement or…
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Black Women and Historical Wellness
Black Women and Historical Wellness Kimberly Akano (bio) Stephanie Evans's Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, Albany: SUNY Press, 2021 Amid individual, interpersonal, and sociopolitical stressors, what resources have Black women leveraged to care for themselves and their communities? For some like Harriet Jacobs or Angela Davis, stretching served as a lifeline for dealing with physical confinement during periods of enslavement or…
“That’s Jesus’s Intent, and That Was Our Intent Too!”
In this essay, I analyze the intersection of African migration, race, and Christianity in the United States to highlight the 1960s as a pivotal moment of African immigrant influence on US missions. Rather than serving as pawns in a US-centric debate about race and missions, African immigrants were key players given their firsthand racialized encounters and their efforts to link racial discord in the US with US missions in Africa. By situating thi…
Undocumented Saints
Reviewed by: Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions by William A. Calvo-Quirós Kimberly Akano William A. Calvo-Quirós, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) Scholars of American religion and migration have long argued that migrant communities take their religious practices with them when they move to a new place. In Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devoti…
Disciplines and Disruptions
WITHOUT A PRAYER: RELIGION AND RACE IN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By Leslie Beth Ribovich. New York: New York University Press, 2024. Pp. vii + 241. Paperback, $30.00. With great clarity and archival precision, Leslie Ribovich explores how the co-construction of religion and race shaped American public education during the 1950s and 1960s. Where many previous studies have focused on the intersection of religion, race, and education in the US S…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African american (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Black women (1 work) · Christian Theology and Mission (1 work)