To Know the Soul of a People Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk

To Know the Soul of a People Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk
- ISBN 13:
9780190082697
- ISBN 10:
0190082690
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/05/2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
depression across the South.
From 1924 to 1941, Charles Johnson, Guy Johnson, Allison Davis, Lewis Jones, and other social scientists framed the religious and cultural practices of the black communities as “folk” practices, aiming to reform them and the broader South. Drawing on their correspondence, fieldnotes, and monographs, Drake shows that social scientists' use of “folk” reveals the religion was an important site for highlighting the supposed mental, moral, and cultural deficits of America's so-called folk population. Moreover, these social scientists did not just pioneer rural social science and reform but used their study of religion to plant the seeds of the concept that would become known as the “culture of poverty” in the latter half of the twentieth century. To Know the Soul of a People is an exciting intellectual history that invites us to explore the knowledge that animated the earnest yet shortsighted liberal efforts to reform black and impoverished communities.