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God and blackness : race, gender, and identity in a middle class Afrocentric church
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God and blackness : race, gender, and identity in a middle class Afrocentric church / Andrea C. Abrams.
ISBN
9780814705230 (cl : alk. paper)
0814705235 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814705247 (pb : alk. paper)
0814705243 (pb : alk. paper)
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
viii, 187 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the author examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and black theology as a means of negotiation the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American.
Variant and related titles
Race, gender, and identity in a middle class Afrocentric church
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Sunday morning: anthropology of a church
The first Afrikan way: method and context
Situating the self: becoming Afrikan in America
"Who I am and whose I am": race and religion
Ebony affluence: Afrocentric middle classness
Eve's positionality: Afrocentric and womanist ideologies
Conclusion: The benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O.
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