God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church /
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 autho...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780814705254 |


