Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "'Taint What You Was, It's What You Is Today": Hallelujah and the Politics of Racial Authenticity 2. "'De Lawd' a Natchel Man": The Green Pastures in the American Cultural Imagination 3. "A Mighty Epic of Modern Morals": Black-Audience Religious Films 4. "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints": Urban Commercial Culture and the Reconstruction of Black Religious Leadership 5. "A Long, Long Way": Religion and African American Wartime Morale 6. "Why Didn't They Tell Me I'm a Negro?": Lost Boundaries and the Moral Landscape of Race Conclusion Filmography Notes Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Judith Weisenfeld is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 and the coeditor of This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women's Religious Biography.

Reviews

"An illuminating study of the history of race and film in America." -- Kathy L. Glass African American Review