Alicia Jackson joins co-hosts Noelle Shaw and Cyril Chavis, Jr. to discuss racialized assumptions about Africans and what it means for how Africans have had to navigate society. We lean on the wisdom of Isaac Anderson -- a clergyman in the CME, an educator, activist, and politician. They talk about racial categories in society, respectability politics, the independent African American church movement, the relevance of the Christian faith for endurance, and much more. 

Dr. Alicia Jackson is an Associate Professor of History at Covenant College and author of the forthcoming book The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson. This project uncovers and restores the narrative of a pivotal leader in the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church and in Georgia's state legislature in the late 19th century.