Juan M Floyd-Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 960877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan M Floyd-Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Floyd-Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | FLOYD-THOMAS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
“That’s Not How the Story Ends: ” Vincent Harding’s Liberating Vision of African American Religious History
A critical reappraisal of Vincent Harding’s transformative work as a preeminent historian of the African American freedom struggle is long overdue. Examining Harding’s major works – There Is A River (1981), Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (1996), and Hope and History (1990) – this paper focuses on Harding’s revisionist approach to US religious history by addressing three historiographical elements: radical reinterpretation of historical…
Religion in the Age of Obama
Religion in the Age of Obama
"This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and t…
Religion in the Age of Obama
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama’s years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, and Islamophobia to international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama’s beliefs and…
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Arguably, scholars tend to use two general interpretative paradigms in American religious history to evaluate trajectories of religious identities and institutions over the long twentieth century. In the first, much of modern U.S. religious history is written against a backdrop of slow, steady declension of mainline American Protestantism's primacy in the public square. In the other, black religious traditions in America are more often sidelined …
African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom
Between Jim Crow and the Swastika: African American Religio-Cultural Interpretations of the Holocaust
This article employs a comparative and interdisciplinary approach that brings together Holocaust studies and Black Church studies in order tomakes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global era. This work is achieved by engaging in an examination regarding the reflections of African Americans in the face of Nazi atrocities towards the Jews. Through their confrontation of Nazism and the Holocaust, African American religio-cultural inter…
American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
Book Review| October 01 2012 American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. By George Shulman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxi + 315 pp. Notes and index. $25 (paper). Juan M. Floyd-Thomas Juan M. Floyd-Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 32 (1): 133–135. https://d…
The Origins of Black Humanism in America: Reverend Ethelred Brown and the Unitarian Church
By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots
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The Origins of Black Humanism in America: Reverend Ethelred Brown and the Unitarian Church
By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots
American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
Book Review| October 01 2012 American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. By George Shulman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxi + 315 pp. Notes and index. $25 (paper). Juan M. Floyd-Thomas Juan M. Floyd-Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 32 (1): 133–135. https://d…
Between Jim Crow and the Swastika: African American Religio-Cultural Interpretations of the Holocaust
This article employs a comparative and interdisciplinary approach that brings together Holocaust studies and Black Church studies in order tomakes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global era. This work is achieved by engaging in an examination regarding the reflections of African Americans in the face of Nazi atrocities towards the Jews. Through their confrontation of Nazism and the Holocaust, African American religio-cultural inter…
African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom
Religion in the Age of Obama
Religion in the Age of Obama
"This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and t…
Religion in the Age of Obama
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama’s years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, and Islamophobia to international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama’s beliefs and…
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Arguably, scholars tend to use two general interpretative paradigms in American religious history to evaluate trajectories of religious identities and institutions over the long twentieth century. In the first, much of modern U.S. religious history is written against a backdrop of slow, steady declension of mainline American Protestantism's primacy in the public square. In the other, black religious traditions in America are more often sidelined …
“That’s Not How the Story Ends: ” Vincent Harding’s Liberating Vision of African American Religious History
A critical reappraisal of Vincent Harding’s transformative work as a preeminent historian of the African American freedom struggle is long overdue. Examining Harding’s major works – There Is A River (1981), Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (1996), and Hope and History (1990) – this paper focuses on Harding’s revisionist approach to US religious history by addressing three historiographical elements: radical reinterpretation of historical…
Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)