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God and blackness : race, gender, and identity in a middle class Afrocentric church / Andrea C. Abrams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : NYU Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814705254
  • 0814705251
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God and blacknessDDC classification:
  • 285/.1758225 23
LOC classification:
  • BR563.B53 A26 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)692359

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.