Early Twentieth-Century Religio-Racial Movements and the Radical Reconfiguration of Memory, Experience, and Imagination

This review highlights how Judith Weisenfeld's concept of “religio-racial” consciousness reveals the comparative and contrasting ways that Ethiopian Hebrews, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the Peace Mission refigured perspectives of time and space. Weisenfeld's analysis also underscores the limits of Protestantism for understanding twentieth-century racial communities.