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...
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