Dennis C Dickerson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 216038 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dennis C Dickerson |
| PRENOMES | Dennis C |
| SOBRENOME | Dickerson |
| ASSINATURA | DICKERSON D C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3639-9431 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
Our Hearts were Strangely Lukewarm
Scholars who decry racism in American society and condemn the collusion of white Wesleyan adherents in maintaining sinful systems of Black subordination premise their narratives around the Methodist Episcopal Church as the normative expression of Methodism in America. This formulation is unnecessarily narrow and wrongly characterizes as derivative other historic Wesleyan denominations of equal longevity and ecclesial standing. American Methodism …
A Long Reconstruction
Paul William Harris chronicles a familiar narrative concerning the promising but failed efforts to achieve Black and white equity in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He tracks John Wesley’s opposition to Black enslavement, describes foundational successes in evangelism among Blacks in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and examines reckonings with the significant number of African American Methodists in both affiliated and autonom…
From Ecumenism to Female Insurgency
Humanity Defined, Hypocrisy Defied
The white ecclesia in the United States either opposed or equivocated on the matter of the humanity of African Americans. The 1939 unification of majority white Methodist bodies, for example, structurally segregated black members into a separate Central Jurisdiction. This action mimicked practices in the broader body politic that crystallized in American society both de jure and de facto systems of second-class citizenship for African Americans. …
Building a Diasporic Family
This article argues that the missionary language of the Women’s Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was cast in familial and kinship nomenclature that eschewed the evil of racial hierarchy. Although routine missionary vernacular about heathen Africa and its need for Christianization and civilization appeared in the rhetoric of AME women, they more deeply expressed a diasporic consciousness that obligated Black…
Paul Harvey. Howard Thurman and the Disinherited
Journal Article Paul Harvey. Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography. Get access Paul Harvey. Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020. Pp. ix, 244. Cloth $29.99. Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Vanderbilt University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Encountering the Bible from Subaltern Sources
Mark A. Noll's insightful and comprehensive survey of the Bible as foundational to American history skillfully nuances this contested topic. While some might describe the United States as a Bible republic, Noll, in stunningly dense detail and documentation, correctly calls the nation a Bible civilization. In drawing this crucial distinction, Noll demonstrates that the Bible and Biblical literacy underlay discourse about politics, culture, and cit…
Banished from Johnstown
The Great Migration, which drew multiple thousands of African Americans away from the agricultural South into the industrial Northeast and Midwest during World War I and the 1920s, stirred resentment and violent reactions from northern whites. Fear of employment competition, encroachments into previously segregated neighborhoods, and raw racial animus stirred police and mob violence, hostile municipal policies, and other threatening acts to end t…
The Southern Key
Michael Goldfield joins a long list of scholars who have lamented the unrealised possibilities that eluded a progressive coalition of workers, women, immigrants and African Americans in their struggles to achieve political and economic democracy. His focus on the American South, mainly in the 1930s and ending in the early 1950s, narrates the missed opportunities that would have enabled unionists, leftists and other insurgents to transform a regio…
Social movements as schooling for careers
Scholarship on social movement schools shows that movements often facilitate the schooling of their participants, while scholarship on the biographical consequences of social movements demonstrates that movements influence their participants’ subsequent careers. To date, however, few studies consider whether and how the schooling functions of social movements shape participants’ later careers. In this article, through a qualitative comparative an…
The Making of a Movement
The 1960s-era, Nashville nonviolent civil rights movement—with its iconic lunch counter sit-ins—was not only an exemplary local movement that dismantled Jim Crow in downtown public accommodations. It was by design the chief vehicle for the intergenerational mentoring and training of activists that led to a dialogical diffusion of nonviolence praxis throughout the Southern civil rights movement of this period. In this article, we empirically deriv…
Pathways to Modes of Movement Participation
We employ a unique sample of participants in the early 1960s Nashville civil rights movement to examine within-movement micromobilization processes. Rather than assuming movement micromobilization and participation is internally homogeneous, we extend the literature by identifying distinct types of pathways (entry and preparation) and distinct types (or modes) of movement participation. Pathways into the Nashville movement are largely structured …
The Ground Has Shifted
Through more than two centuries the black church has encountered a series of tectonic shifts in the milieu of its African American constituents, a story examined using history, theory, and personal reflection in The Ground Has Shifted. Whether in the transition from slavery to emancipation in the nineteenth century or during the massive migration from the agricultural South to the industrial North in the twentieth century, the black church has co…
The Bahá'í Faith and African American History
The Bahá'í Faith, though never mainstream in African American religious thought, drew a significant cadre of black adherents to its tenet of race amity. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Supreme Court–sanctioned structures of segregation hardened into state and local statues, some blacks embraced a religion that placed interracialism and transnational harmony at the center of its beliefs. In this edited volume of essays by …
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
In this book, Dennis C. Dickerson examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with major social movements over more than two centuries. Beginning as a religious movement in the late eighteenth century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church developed as a freedom advocate for blacks in the Atlantic World. Governance of a proud black ecclesia often clashed with its commitment to and resources for fighti…
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gandhi's India and Beyond
Previous articleNext article FreeGandhi's India and Beyond: Black Women's Religious and Secular Internationalism, 1935–1952Dennis C. DickersonDennis C. DickersonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAfrican American women encountered Mohandas K. Gandhi in India in the 1930s and 1940s and influenced others whom they mentored to engage …
Born of Conviction
An institutionalized Methodism in the American South, harnessed to a white supremacist ideology, negated the basic tenets of the Wesleyan movement. Methodism, initially a Holy Club established at Christ Church at Oxford University in 1729 by devout Anglican brothers anxious for a spiritual revitalization of the Church of England, spread like ‘wild fire’ in the 1760s and 1770s to British North America. The astonishing success of this evangelical b…
Preparation Pathways and Movement Participation
Employing a unique sample of participants in the early Nashville civil rights movement, we extend the micromobilization literature by conceptualizing “preparation pathways” (or schooling channels) through which activists acquire insurgent consciousness and capital so crucial for committed, effective, high-risk activism. We identify two key pathways in which activists were “schooled” in nonviolent praxis—experience in nonviolent direct action prio…
Christopher Robert Reed. Knock at the Door of Opportunity
Chicago’s African American population has drawn more scholarly attention than any other city in nineteenth and twentieth century American history. From Charles S. Johnson, St. Clair Drake, and Horace R. Cayton to the author of this present study, “Bronzeville” has become the preeminent paradigm of the multiple forces that shaped the black urban experience. Christopher Robert Reed, who has written numerous other volumes on Chicago’s black history,…
Witness
Journal Article Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York Get access Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. xii, 708 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1236–1237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav037 Published: 01 March 2015
Prophetic Encounters
Liberation, Wesleyan Theology and Early African Methodism, 1766-1840
Research Article| January 01 2011 LIBERATION, WESLEYAN THEOLOGY AND EARLY AFRICAN METHODISM, 1766-1840 Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2011) 3: 109–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909806 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dennis C. Dickerson; LIBERATION, WESLEYAN THEOLOGY AND EARLY AFRICAN METHODISM, 1766-1840. Wes…
African American Preachers and Politics
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey Sr. (1868–1931) and Archibald J. Carey Jr. (1908–1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual and material well-being of their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both wrestled with moral consequences and varied out…
Preparation Pathways and Movement Participation
Employing a unique sample of participants in the early Nashville civil rights movement, we extend the micromobilization literature by conceptualizing “preparation pathways” (or schooling channels) through which activists acquire insurgent consciousness and capital so crucial for committed, effective, high-risk activism. We identify two key pathways in which activists were “schooled” in nonviolent praxis—experience in nonviolent direct action prio…
African American Religious Intellectuals and the Theological Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, 1930-55
Among the innumerable warriors against legalized racial segregation and discrimination in American society, the iconic Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a principal spokesman and symbol of the black freedom struggle. The many marches that he led and the crucial acts of civil disobedience that he spurred during the 1950s and 1960s established him and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as rallying points for civil rights activities in se…
Social movements as schooling for careers
Scholarship on social movement schools shows that movements often facilitate the schooling of their participants, while scholarship on the biographical consequences of social movements demonstrates that movements influence their participants’ subsequent careers. To date, however, few studies consider whether and how the schooling functions of social movements shape participants’ later careers. In this article, through a qualitative comparative an…
The Making of a Movement
The 1960s-era, Nashville nonviolent civil rights movement—with its iconic lunch counter sit-ins—was not only an exemplary local movement that dismantled Jim Crow in downtown public accommodations. It was by design the chief vehicle for the intergenerational mentoring and training of activists that led to a dialogical diffusion of nonviolence praxis throughout the Southern civil rights movement of this period. In this article, we empirically deriv…
Out of the Crucible
Gandhi's India and Beyond
Previous articleNext article FreeGandhi's India and Beyond: Black Women's Religious and Secular Internationalism, 1935–1952Dennis C. DickersonDennis C. DickersonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAfrican American women encountered Mohandas K. Gandhi in India in the 1930s and 1940s and influenced others whom they mentored to engage …
Black Ecumenicism
Between 1918 and 1932 representatives from three black denominations- African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and Colored Methodist Episcopal-devised plans to merge into one religious body which they hoped to name the United Methodist Episcopal church. During this period the clergy and laity of these three black denominations debated the advantages and shortcomings of the Birmingham Plan of 1918 and the Pittsburgh proposals…
Out of the Crucible
Out of the Crucible
Journal Article Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. xiv + 323 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Paul F. Clark Paul F. Clark Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 534–535, …
Making Their Own Way
New Orleans Dockworkers
Journal Article New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892–1923. By Daniel Rosenberg. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 277–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908434 Publishe…
Out of the Crucible
Labor Divided
Journal Article Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835–1960. Ed. by Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. xii + 378 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $18.95.) Get access Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 321–322,…
Coal, Class, and Color
Journal Article Coal, Class, and Colon Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32. By Joe William Trotter, Jr. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xvi +. 290 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-01707-2. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-252-06119-5.) Get access Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1…
Bridging the River of Hatred
Journal Article Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. By Mary M. Stolberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky Get access Richard J. Meister Richard J. Meister DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
Militant Mediator
During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy for achieving equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued together were the best tactics for achieving social, economic, and political change. Alone among his civil rights colleagues - Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, John Lewis, and James …
The Last Crusade
African American Religious Intellectuals and the Theological Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, 1930-55
Among the innumerable warriors against legalized racial segregation and discrimination in American society, the iconic Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a principal spokesman and symbol of the black freedom struggle. The many marches that he led and the crucial acts of civil disobedience that he spurred during the 1950s and 1960s established him and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as rallying points for civil rights activities in se…
Singing in a Strange Land
African American Preachers and Politics
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey Sr. (1868–1931) and Archibald J. Carey Jr. (1908–1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual and material well-being of their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both wrestled with moral consequences and varied out…
Liberation, Wesleyan Theology and Early African Methodism, 1766-1840
Research Article| January 01 2011 LIBERATION, WESLEYAN THEOLOGY AND EARLY AFRICAN METHODISM, 1766-1840 Dennis C. Dickerson Dennis C. Dickerson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2011) 3: 109–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909806 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dennis C. Dickerson; LIBERATION, WESLEYAN THEOLOGY AND EARLY AFRICAN METHODISM, 1766-1840. Wes…
Prophetic Encounters
Christopher Robert Reed. Knock at the Door of Opportunity
Chicago’s African American population has drawn more scholarly attention than any other city in nineteenth and twentieth century American history. From Charles S. Johnson, St. Clair Drake, and Horace R. Cayton to the author of this present study, “Bronzeville” has become the preeminent paradigm of the multiple forces that shaped the black urban experience. Christopher Robert Reed, who has written numerous other volumes on Chicago’s black history,…
Witness
Journal Article Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York Get access Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. xii, 708 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1236–1237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav037 Published: 01 March 2015
Preparation Pathways and Movement Participation
Employing a unique sample of participants in the early Nashville civil rights movement, we extend the micromobilization literature by conceptualizing “preparation pathways” (or schooling channels) through which activists acquire insurgent consciousness and capital so crucial for committed, effective, high-risk activism. We identify two key pathways in which activists were “schooled” in nonviolent praxis—experience in nonviolent direct action prio…
Born of Conviction
An institutionalized Methodism in the American South, harnessed to a white supremacist ideology, negated the basic tenets of the Wesleyan movement. Methodism, initially a Holy Club established at Christ Church at Oxford University in 1729 by devout Anglican brothers anxious for a spiritual revitalization of the Church of England, spread like ‘wild fire’ in the 1760s and 1770s to British North America. The astonishing success of this evangelical b…
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
In this book, Dennis C. Dickerson examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with major social movements over more than two centuries. Beginning as a religious movement in the late eighteenth century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church developed as a freedom advocate for blacks in the Atlantic World. Governance of a proud black ecclesia often clashed with its commitment to and resources for fighti…
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gandhi's India and Beyond
Previous articleNext article FreeGandhi's India and Beyond: Black Women's Religious and Secular Internationalism, 1935–1952Dennis C. DickersonDennis C. DickersonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAfrican American women encountered Mohandas K. Gandhi in India in the 1930s and 1940s and influenced others whom they mentored to engage …
Pathways to Modes of Movement Participation
We employ a unique sample of participants in the early 1960s Nashville civil rights movement to examine within-movement micromobilization processes. Rather than assuming movement micromobilization and participation is internally homogeneous, we extend the literature by identifying distinct types of pathways (entry and preparation) and distinct types (or modes) of movement participation. Pathways into the Nashville movement are largely structured …
The Ground Has Shifted
Through more than two centuries the black church has encountered a series of tectonic shifts in the milieu of its African American constituents, a story examined using history, theory, and personal reflection in The Ground Has Shifted. Whether in the transition from slavery to emancipation in the nineteenth century or during the massive migration from the agricultural South to the industrial North in the twentieth century, the black church has co…
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