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God and Blackness
Andrea C. Abrams
其他書名
Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church
出版NYU Press, 2014
主題Religion / Christian Theology / SystematicReligion / Christianity / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN08147052519780814705254
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=53i9AgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.a a God and Blackness aoffers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific communityOCothat 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 AfrikanOCOs 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. a"