Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Across four chapters that proceed as chronologically organized episodes, Black is a Church maps the ways in which black American culture and identity have been animated by a particular set of often unmarked Protestant logics. In doing so, it tracks the entangled discourses of racial authenticity and religious orthodoxy as Christianity was made constitutive of the content and forms of black subjectivity and facilitated the emergence of black social life in North America. Chapter 1 argues that Afro-Protestantism relied upon literary strategies to enunciate itself since the earliest years of its formation. As seen in slave narratives, Protestant Christianity was essential to the establishment of the earliest black literary forms. Chapter 2 follows Afro-Protestantism’s heterodox history in the convergence of literature, politics, and religion at the end of the nineteenth century. This chapter tracks a set of social movements, revealing how religious aspirations animated early calls for a “race literature” and the “the color line” provided an organizing logic for religious innovations as divergent as the practices of pluralism and Pentecostalism at the century’s close. Chapter 3 surveys historical, sociological, and anthropological work during the 1930s and 1940s—focusing especially on the launch of Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture—at a key moment in the study of African American culture. Finally, chapter 4 presents three recent episodes, across the spheres of scholarship, literature, and politics, to illustrate the persistence—that is, the afterlives—of Afro-Protestantism at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".