Kai Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3690-7950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings
This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version of the social gospel. Du Bois indicated that to undo the logic of “Darkest Africa,” African American chur…
The Wretched and the Damned
This article argues that between 1945 and 1965, Black Chicago gospel music critically and theologically reflected the tensions between the prophetic theology of the Black social gospel and the civil rights movement, and the Black confrontation with the emergent “urban crisis.” This critical theology infused what I call, drawing from David Marriott's reading of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, gospel's aesthetics of wretchedness: its expr…
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings
This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version of the social gospel. Du Bois indicated that to undo the logic of “Darkest Africa,” African American chur…
The Wretched and the Damned
This article argues that between 1945 and 1965, Black Chicago gospel music critically and theologically reflected the tensions between the prophetic theology of the Black social gospel and the civil rights movement, and the Black confrontation with the emergent “urban crisis.” This critical theology infused what I call, drawing from David Marriott's reading of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, gospel's aesthetics of wretchedness: its expr…
Civil rights (2 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (2 works) · African american (1 work) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Civil society (1 work) · Diaspora (1 work) · Gospel (1 work) · Human rights (1 work) · Metaphor (1 work) · Music History and Culture (1 work)