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God and Blackness - Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church (Hardcover)
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God and Blackness - Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church (Hardcover)
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Blackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to
cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic
and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or
a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color
ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker
of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as
a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth. Despite
the fact that it is elusive and difficult to define, blackness
serves as one of the most potent and unifying domains of identity.
God and Blackness offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it
is understood within a specific community--that of the First
Afrikan Church, a middle-class Afrocentric congregation in Atlanta,
Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and
in‑depth interviews, Andrea C. Abrams examines how this community
has employed Afrocentrism and Black theology as a means of
negotiating the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that
are part of being both black and American. Specifically, Abrams
examines the ways in which First Afrikan's construction of
community is influenced by shared understandings of blackness, and
probes the means through which individuals negotiate the tensions
created by competing constructions of their black identity.
Although Afrocentrism operates as the focal point of this
discussion, the book examines questions of political identity,
religious expression and gender dynamics through the lens of a
unique black church.
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