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The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity : Race, Heathens, and the People of God Hardback
by S. Johnson
Part of the Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice series
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This monograph is an original study of what is commonly termed the American "myth of Ham".
It examines black and white Americans' recourse to the biblical character of Ham as a cultural strategy for explaining racial origins.
Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:187 pages, XV, 187 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:03/12/2004
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- ISBN:9781403965622
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:187 pages, XV, 187 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:03/12/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781403965622