God and Blackness : : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church / / Andrea C. Abrams.

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 rich...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
LEADER 04301nam a22006735i 4500
001 9780814705254
003 DE-B1597
005 20220629043637.0
006 m|||||o||d||||||||
007 cr || ||||||||
008 220629t20142014nyu fo d z eng d
020 |a 9780814705254 
024 7 |a 10.18574/nyu/9780814705230.001.0001  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-B1597)548366 
035 |a (OCoLC)869735692 
040 |a DE-B1597  |b eng  |c DE-B1597  |e rda 
041 0 |a eng 
044 |a nyu  |c US-NY 
050 4 |a BR563.N4  |b A26 2016 
072 7 |a REL070000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 285.1758225  |2 23 
100 1 |a Abrams, Andrea C.,   |e author.  |4 aut  |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 
245 1 0 |a God and Blackness :  |b Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church /  |c Andrea C. Abrams. 
264 1 |a New York, NY :   |b New York University Press,   |c [2014] 
264 4 |c ©2014 
300 |a 1 online resource 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a text file  |b PDF  |2 rda 
505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. The First Afrikan Way --   |t 2. Situating the Self --   |t 3. “Who I Am and Whose I Am” --   |t 4. Ebony Affluence --   |t 5. Eve’s Positionality --   |t Conclusion. --   |t References --   |t Index --   |t About the Author 
506 0 |a restricted access  |u http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec  |f online access with authorization  |2 star 
520 |a 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. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
546 |a In English. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) 
650 0 |a African Americans  |x Religion. 
650 0 |a Black theology. 
650 7 |a RELIGION / Christianity / General.  |2 bisacsh 
773 0 8 |i Title is part of eBook package:  |d De Gruyter  |t New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015  |z 9783110728996 
776 0 |c print  |z 9780814705230 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814705230.001.0001 
856 4 0 |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814705254 
856 4 2 |3 Cover  |u https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814705254/original 
912 |a 978-3-11-072899-6 New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015  |c 2014  |d 2015 
912 |a EBA_BACKALL 
912 |a EBA_CL_PLTLJSIS 
912 |a EBA_EBACKALL 
912 |a EBA_EBKALL 
912 |a EBA_ECL_PLTLJSIS 
912 |a EBA_EEBKALL 
912 |a EBA_ESSHALL 
912 |a EBA_PPALL 
912 |a EBA_SSHALL 
912 |a GBV-deGruyter-alles 
912 |a PDA11SSHE 
912 |a PDA13ENGE 
912 |a PDA17SSHEE 
912 |a PDA5EBK