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  title info:
    title: City of Black souls
    sub title: Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black apocalyptic imagination
  title info:
    title: Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black apocalyptic imagination
  name:
    name part: Parker, Kai
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism. This was a movement of Ethiopianism-meaning a movement for Black religious and political independence inspired by biblical references to "Ethiopia," particularly Psalm 68:31, "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." Through Ethiopianism, Kai Parker argues, Black Chicago Protestants drew from Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Christian traditions and worked with West African Christians to imagine that Afrodiasporic Christian faith heralded the apocalyptic end of imperialism and white supremacy. Parker illuminates the apocalyptic Ethiopianism of famous Black Chicagoans such as Ida B. Wells and gospel musician Thomas Dorsey, and of lesser known ones such as painter William Edouard Scott and Nigerian immigrant-turned-anticolonial missionary Samuel Wadiei Martin. When John C. Robinson, a Black Chicagoan, led Haile Selassie's air force against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935-1936, this was no coincidence, but rather an outgrowth of decades of Ethiopianism in Chicago. City of Black Souls shows that Ethiopianism was a dynamic, heterogeneous, and modern movement through which Black migrants to Chicago engaged the industrial city and influenced the mid-twentieth century anticolonial and civil rights movements. The book is especially important to Black religious and political studies in its demonstration of how apocalyptic Ethiopianism differed in its contributions to the Black freedom struggle from the canonical "prophetic" religion grounded in the Exodus notion of moving from slavery to freedom"-- Provided by publisher.
  note: Kai Parker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-il
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: African American churches
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Church renewal
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Anti-imperialist movements
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Apocalyptic literature
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Oriental Orthodox churches
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    geographic: Chicago (Ill.)
    topic: Church history
  subject:
    topic: Relations raciales
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Christianisme
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Églises noires américaines
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Littérature apocalyptique
    topic: Influence
  classification: F548.9.B53 P37 2025
  classification: 270.089/96077311
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Politics and culture in modern America
  identifier: 9781512827521
  identifier: 1512827525
  identifier: 9781512827538
  identifier: 2025002783
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250422
    record change date: 20250622023650.3
    record identifier: in00005648196
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng