[PDF] True To Our Native Land eBook

Author : Brian K. Blount
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506483011

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True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches. The book calls into question many canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in Christian Scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people.

Author : Brian K. Blount
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800634217

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This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship that is in tune with African American churches calls into question many of the canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in Christian scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people. Contributors include the volume editors, Thomas Hoyt, Monya A. Stubbs, Vincent Wimbush, and sixteen other notable scholars.

Author : Brian K. Blount
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506483003

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True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary of the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. The second edition includes updated commentaries and essays.

Author : Imani Perry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469638614

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The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of black Americans. Since the song's creation, it has been adopted by the NAACP and performed by countless artists in times of both crisis and celebration, cementing its place in African American life up through the present day. In this rich, poignant, and readable work, Imani Perry tells the story of the Black National Anthem as it traveled from South to North, from civil rights to black power, and from countless family reunions to Carnegie Hall and the Oval Office. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Perry uses "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as a window on the powerful ways African Americans have used music and culture to organize, mourn, challenge, and celebrate for more than a century.

Author : Jack Herndon
Publisher : Innovators in Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780867094084

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James Herndon details classroom life and the inescapable realities of a school situation.

Author : Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812297989

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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Author : Brian K Blount, Ph.D.
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2007-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780806342160

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* The first African-American commentary on the New Testament

Author : Aime Cesaire
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 193574495X

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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity. More praise: "The greatest living poet in the French language."--American Book Review "Martinique poet Aime Cesaire is one of the few pure surrealists alive today. By this I mean that his work has never compromised its wild universe of double meanings, stretched syntax, and unexpected imagery. This long poem was written at the end of World War II and became an anthem for many blacks around the world. Eshleman and Smith have revised their original 1983 translations and given it additional power by presenting Cesaire's unique voice as testament to a world reduced in size by catastrophic events." --Bloomsbury Review "Through his universal call for the respect of human dignity, consciousness and responsibility, he will remain a symbol of hope for all oppressed peoples." --Nicolas Sarkozy "Evocative and thoughtful, touching on human aspiration far beyond the scale of its specific concerns with Cesaire's native land - Martinique." --The Times

Author : Julia Reed
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250166349

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A collection of essays written for the column "The high & the low" in the magazine Garden & gun.