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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


