Author: James H. E. Crees
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Columbus Salley
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780806520483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lists and ranks those black Americans who have had the greatest impact on the progress toward complete participation in our society.
Author: Durga Chew-Bose
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0374535957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
Author: Doris Witt
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1452907315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Assesses the complex interrelationships between food, race, and gender in America, with special attention paid to the famous figure of Aunt Jemima and the role played by soul food in the post-Civil War period, up through the civil rights movement and the present day. Original.
Author: Ronald W. Walters
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780791441466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by two of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.
Author: Peter Slade
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-07-11
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1617038601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always a passionate, provocative clarion, Perkins persisted for forty years in bringing about the formation of the Christian Community Development Association—a large network of evangelical churches and community organizations working in America's poorest communities—and inspired the emerging generation of young evangelicals concerned with releasing the Church from its cultural captivity and oppressive materialism. John M. Perkins has received surprisingly little attention from historians of modern American religious history and theologians. Mobilizing for the Common Good is an exploration of his theological significance. With contributions from theologians, historians, and activists, this book contends that Perkins ushered in a paradigm shift in twentieth-century evangelical theology that continues to influence Christian community development projects and social justice activists today.
Author: Theophus H. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-11-09
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0198023197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical means of transforming reality--in black spirituality and culture. Smith shows that the Bible, the sacred text of Western civilization, has in fact functioned as a magical formulary for African Americans. Going back to slave religion, and continuing in black folk practice and literature to the present day, the Bible has provided African Americans with ritual prescriptions for prophetically re-envisioning, and thereby transforming, their history and culture. In effect the Bible is a "conjure book" for prescribing cures and curses, and for invoking extraordinary and Divine powers to effect changes in the conditions of human existence--and to bring about justice and freedom. Biblical themes, symbols, and figures like Moses, the Exodus, the Promised Land, and the Suffering Servant, as deployed by African Americans, have crucially formed and reformed not only black culture, but American society as a whole. Smith examines not only the religious and political uses of conjure, but its influence on black aesthetics, in music, drama, folklore, and literature. The concept of conjure, he shows, is at the heart of an indigenous and still vital spirituality, with exciting implications for reformulating the next generation of black studies and black theology. Even more broadly, Smith proposes, "conjuring culture" can function as a new paradigm for understanding Western religious and cultural phenomena generally.