Jacob S Dorman
Biographic Data
| ID | 512102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob S Dorman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorman |
| SIGNATURE | DORMAN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Americans, Africans, and Antiracism at Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893
THEOPHILUS GOULD STEWARD, chaplain for the Twenty-Fifth US Colored Infantry, the famous “Buffalo Soldiers,” spoke at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and argued that the United States must found a new American race, rather than “getting all of its glory from a Saxonism long defunct, and that, in fact never had but slight foothold upon this Western world.” Recounting the manifold achievements of Americans who had founded and sustained a representa…
Western Civilization through Eastern Spectacles: Duse Mohamed Ali, Black Orientalist Imposture, and Black Internationalism
Although he claimed to be a Sudanese-Egyptian, pioneering journalist Duse Mohamed Ali was almost certainly neither Egyptian nor originally a Muslim. Textual evidence from his seldom analyzed self-published autobiography suggests that he was reared as a West Indian Christian and was perhaps born as William Rand. But regardless of his actual birthplace and given name, the man who helped inspire Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad was a Black Oriental…
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies Jacob S. Dorman (bio) American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama Berman. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 288pages. $70.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America. By Sohail Daulatzai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272pages. $67.50 (cloth). $22.50…
Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions
This book offers new insights into the rise of Black Israelite religions in America, faiths ranging from Judaism to Islam to Rastafarianism, all of which believe that the ancient Hebrew Israelites were Black and that contemporary African Americans are their descendants. The book traces the influence of Israelite practices and philosophies in the Holiness Christianity movement of the 1890s and the emergence of the Pentecostal Movement in 1906. An …
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography
Book Review| January 01 2012 Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x + 595 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $50 (cloth). Jacob S. Dorman Jacob S. Dorman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jo…
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
In The White Negress, Lori Harrison-Kahan argues that existing understandings of the making of white identity in the interwar period among American Jews of European descent change when we include Jewish women actors and authors. The author positions her work in critical dialogue with “whiteness studies” books by Michael Rogin, Toni Morrison, and David Roediger—all of whom argue that first- and second-generation European Americans staked their cla…
Lifted Out of the Commonplace Grandeur of Modern Times: Reappraising Edward Wilmot Blyden's Views of Islam and Afrocentrism in Light of His Scholarly Black Christian Orientalism
Although the West Indian-born West African intellectual Rev. Edward Wilmot Blyden praised the societies of Africa and the Orient, he was actually a lifelong Christian whose thought followed Orientalist templates, from his acquisition of "Oriental" languages, to his use of Orientalist learning to evangelize Muslims, to his advocacy of Islamic education as a means of strengthening British imperialism in West Africa. While Blyden's view of Islam was…
Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
"I Saw You Disappear with My Own Eyes": Hidden Transcripts of New York Black Israelite Bricolage
To date, scholars have tended to view Black Israelites as mercenary, derivative, or imitative. However, this microhistorical reading of the public, partial, and hidden transcripts of New York Rabbi Wentworth Arthur Matthew's beliefs and ritual practices demonstrates that Black Israelites did not simply imitate Jews, but rather they were bricoleurs who constructed a polycultural religion that creatively reworked threads from religious faiths, secr…
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies Jacob S. Dorman (bio) American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama Berman. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 288pages. $70.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America. By Sohail Daulatzai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272pages. $67.50 (cloth). $22.50…
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
In The White Negress, Lori Harrison-Kahan argues that existing understandings of the making of white identity in the interwar period among American Jews of European descent change when we include Jewish women actors and authors. The author positions her work in critical dialogue with “whiteness studies” books by Michael Rogin, Toni Morrison, and David Roediger—all of whom argue that first- and second-generation European Americans staked their cla…
Lifted Out of the Commonplace Grandeur of Modern Times: Reappraising Edward Wilmot Blyden's Views of Islam and Afrocentrism in Light of His Scholarly Black Christian Orientalism
Although the West Indian-born West African intellectual Rev. Edward Wilmot Blyden praised the societies of Africa and the Orient, he was actually a lifelong Christian whose thought followed Orientalist templates, from his acquisition of "Oriental" languages, to his use of Orientalist learning to evangelize Muslims, to his advocacy of Islamic education as a means of strengthening British imperialism in West Africa. While Blyden's view of Islam was…
"I Saw You Disappear with My Own Eyes": Hidden Transcripts of New York Black Israelite Bricolage
To date, scholars have tended to view Black Israelites as mercenary, derivative, or imitative. However, this microhistorical reading of the public, partial, and hidden transcripts of New York Rabbi Wentworth Arthur Matthew's beliefs and ritual practices demonstrates that Black Israelites did not simply imitate Jews, but rather they were bricoleurs who constructed a polycultural religion that creatively reworked threads from religious faiths, secr…
Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
Lifted Out of the Commonplace Grandeur of Modern Times: Reappraising Edward Wilmot Blyden's Views of Islam and Afrocentrism in Light of His Scholarly Black Christian Orientalism
Although the West Indian-born West African intellectual Rev. Edward Wilmot Blyden praised the societies of Africa and the Orient, he was actually a lifelong Christian whose thought followed Orientalist templates, from his acquisition of "Oriental" languages, to his use of Orientalist learning to evangelize Muslims, to his advocacy of Islamic education as a means of strengthening British imperialism in West Africa. While Blyden's view of Islam was…
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography
Book Review| January 01 2012 Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x + 595 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $50 (cloth). Jacob S. Dorman Jacob S. Dorman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jo…
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
In The White Negress, Lori Harrison-Kahan argues that existing understandings of the making of white identity in the interwar period among American Jews of European descent change when we include Jewish women actors and authors. The author positions her work in critical dialogue with “whiteness studies” books by Michael Rogin, Toni Morrison, and David Roediger—all of whom argue that first- and second-generation European Americans staked their cla…
Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions
This book offers new insights into the rise of Black Israelite religions in America, faiths ranging from Judaism to Islam to Rastafarianism, all of which believe that the ancient Hebrew Israelites were Black and that contemporary African Americans are their descendants. The book traces the influence of Israelite practices and philosophies in the Holiness Christianity movement of the 1890s and the emergence of the Pentecostal Movement in 1906. An …
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies
Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Orientalism and American Studies Jacob S. Dorman (bio) American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama Berman. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 288pages. $70.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America. By Sohail Daulatzai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272pages. $67.50 (cloth). $22.50…
African Americans, Africans, and Antiracism at Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893
THEOPHILUS GOULD STEWARD, chaplain for the Twenty-Fifth US Colored Infantry, the famous “Buffalo Soldiers,” spoke at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and argued that the United States must found a new American race, rather than “getting all of its glory from a Saxonism long defunct, and that, in fact never had but slight foothold upon this Western world.” Recounting the manifold achievements of Americans who had founded and sustained a representa…
Western Civilization through Eastern Spectacles: Duse Mohamed Ali, Black Orientalist Imposture, and Black Internationalism
Although he claimed to be a Sudanese-Egyptian, pioneering journalist Duse Mohamed Ali was almost certainly neither Egyptian nor originally a Muslim. Textual evidence from his seldom analyzed self-published autobiography suggests that he was reared as a West Indian Christian and was perhaps born as William Rand. But regardless of his actual birthplace and given name, the man who helped inspire Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad was a Black Oriental…
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