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God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church / Andrea C. Abrams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : NYU Press, 2014Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814705254
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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.
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.
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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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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.

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