In spite of Haile Selassie I's protestations, the African diaspora started seeing signs wherever he went and in whatever he did.
This unlikely exaltation of the head of the Rastafari movement begins Anna Della Subin's meaty debut, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine, which blurs the lines between the sacred and profane. She writes about British socialist and later Indian National Congress president Annie Besant, who was grooming a boy as a vessel for the next coming of Christ while she was agitating for Indian home rule - a story synchronous with that of Mahatma Gandhi, whose own religious charisma caused him to turn himself in to the authorities after it sparked fatal violence.
But Subin's stories are not just curiosities. They make the point that those who are deified are almost always white and male, shoring up power structures that have allowed white societies to propagate the notion of their own superiority.
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