TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abrams,Andrea C.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - God and Blackness : : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church / 
SN  - 9780814705254
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schwarze Theologie
KW  - Kirchengemeinde
KW  - Ethnische Identität
KW  - Black theology
KW  - fast
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Presbyterian
KW  - USA
KW  - Atlanta, Ga
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28729/
ER  -