Chosen people : the rise of American Black Israelite religions /
Dorman, Jacob S.,1974-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2013.
"This is our Red Sea": exodusters, prophet William Saunders Crowdy, and the beginnings of black Israelism -- "Equivalent to Israelism": inheritance, freemasonry, and the ancient Israelites -- "We are Israelites but not Jews": orientalism and Israelism in the holiness-Pentecostal movement -- "Our only hope, our only salvation as a race": Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, Ethiopianism, and African American settlers in Ethiopia -- "I saw you disappear with my own eyes": hidden transcripts of Rabbi Wentworth a. Matthew's black Israelite bricolage.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Black Hebrews