Discredited Knowledges and Black Religious Ways of Knowing

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This essay invokes Toni Morrison's notion of "discredited knowledges" to ruminate on Black religions among the enslaved in nineteenth century, a period replete with revolution and "emancipation." It considers slave narrative as site both material immaterial reality order evidence significance biography for taking seriously revering knowledges discredited by master class, particular attention death, ancestors, funerary rites, other evidences what I term, "Black religious ways knowing."

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2166-7438', '2166-742X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0005