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To know the soul of a people religion, race, and the making of the Southern folk /

'To Know the Soul of a People' is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religious and cultural practices of the b...

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Main Author: Drake, Jamil W.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
African Americans -- Religious life -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Folklore.
Poor African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Rural African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Folk religion -- Southern States.
Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Religious life and customs.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

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