Televised redemption : Black religious media and racial empowerment

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Label

Televised redemption : Black religious media and racial empowerment

Title remainder

Black religious media and racial empowerment

Statement of responsibility

Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr., and Marla F. Frederick

Creator

• Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-

Contributor

• Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971-
• Frederick, Marla Faye, 1972-

Author

• Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
• Frederick, Marla Faye, 1972-
• Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971-

Subject

• African Americans -- Relations with Jews
• African Americans -- Relations with Jews
• African Americans -- Religion
• African Americans -- Religion
• Black Muslims
• Black Muslims -- History
• Ethische Bewegung
• Fernsehsendung
• History
• Massenmedien
• RELIGION / Psychology of Religion
• Religion
• African American Muslims
• Religion on television
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Schwarze
• Television broadcasting -- Religious aspects
• Television broadcasting -- Religious aspects
• Television in religion
• Television in religion -- United States
• USA
• United States
• Religion on television
• African American Muslims -- History
• African Americans -- Race identity
• African Americans -- Race identity

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

The institutional structures of white supremacy--slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration--require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral and intellectual capacities of white people. It is through this lens of belief that racial exclusions have been justified and reproduced in the United States. Televised Redemption argues that African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing the race by unabashedly claiming that blacks are endowed by God with the same gifts of goodness and reason as whites--if not more, thereby legitimizing black Americans' rights to citizenship. If racism is a form of perception, then religious media has not only altered how others perceive blacks, but has also altered how blacks perceive themselves. Televised Redemption argues that black religious media has provided black Americans with new conceptual and practical tools for how to be in the world, and changed how black people are made intelligible and recognizable as moral citizens. In order to make these claims to black racial equality, this media has encouraged dispositional changes in adherents that were at times empowering and at other times repressive. From Christian televangelism to Muslim periodicals to Hebrew Israelite radio, Televised Redemption explores the complicated but critical redemptive history of African American religious media. -- Amazon.com

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

200.89/96

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BR563.N4

LC item number

R68 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography