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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $186.07
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Steven Barboza
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170.8996073
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Publication Date: 1998-09-15
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Reading Level: 960
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Description: In this massive anthology, Steven Barboza reveals the story of the African American as largely a story of good triumphing over evil, in a myriad of forms. "This book," he writes, "can give children, families, teachers and friends glimpses of values in action and provide moral examples that any reader can recognize." Culled from many short-story and novel excerpts, poems, and essays, the collection is divided into three distinct headings. "The Book of Self-Mastery" examines self-discipline, courage, honesty, self-esteem, work, tenacity, creativity, and faith through texts such as Ralph Ellison's "Little Man at Chehaw Station," historian Charles Blockson's heroic "The Ballad of the Underground Railroad," and Alain Locke's philosophical battle cry of the Harlem Renaissance, "The New Negro." Charles Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," James Weldon Johnson's stereotype-smashing look at Harlem in "Black Manhattan," and Martin Luther King's immortal "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" illuminate many of the themes in "The Book of Empathy," including family, community and responsibility. In "Survival Humor," we find the most vibrant examples of the mores that helped Afro-Americans endure slavery, racism, and discrimination, as evidenced by the Southern-spun tall tales of folklorist Zora Neale Hurston's "Big Ol' Lies," the hard-luck fable of Afro-vaudevillian funnyman Bert Williams's "The Colored Zoo," and the mother of all insult narratives: the ancient, blues-and-riff-based style of "The Signifying Monkey." Barboza writes that "humor has played more than just a funny role in the affairs of black folks. Truth is, for African-Americans, humor has always been serious business. It served its purpose well as a survival mechanism, used to defend, attack, counterattack and guide people through life's rougher spots." This section is the capper to an impressively diversified volume that may prove equally capable of guidance. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.44
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cleophus J. LaRue
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 280.4092396073
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Publication Date: 2005-05-01
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: African American women continue to confess their call to ministry even when they know such a confession may cause them to face ostracism and criticism from many of the same men and women who nurtured them in the faith. In "This is My Story," thirteen successful African American women clergy tell the inspirational and heartbreaking stories about their calls and ministerial journeys, which they experienced in the midst of anguish, uncertainty, and in many cases unfriendly leadership environments. Each of the women includes a sermon of particular importance to her. Contributors include: Cokiesha Lashon Bailey, Cecilia E. Greene Barr, Deborah K. Blanks, Alsyon Diane Browne, Delores Carpenter, Odessa Coder, Claudette Anderson Copeland, LaVerne M. Gill, Alison P. Gise Johnson, Cynthia L. Hale, Carla Jones, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, and Charlotte McSwine-Harris.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $6.25
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andrew Billingsley
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2003-01-23
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society.
An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly?
With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject.
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $7.35
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Manufacturer: P & R Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anthony J. Carter
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Publisher: P & R Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.08996073
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Publication Date: 2003-10-01
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Reading Level: 153
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Description: "My goal," writes Anthony J. Carter, is to redeem and reform our understanding of "the Black American experience through the most legitimate lens available to us—theology. And the most legitimate theological perspective through which to attain this goal is the biblically based and historically grounded Reformed perspective." "A Black Reformed theological perspective on history has the primary goal of glorifying God," Carter continues. "In doing so we are confident that in turn it will be a comfort to the people of God." Carter does not flinch from tackling the toughest questions: - Where was God in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the subsequent slavery perpetrated on these African people? - How does Christianity triumph among a people oppressed in a so-called Christian society by so-called Christians? "It is my hope," writes Carter, "that the reader will find in these pages a pointer in the direction of him who can answer every question and resolve every issue, . . . Jesus Christ." Carter prays that his readers will find here "the glories of God in Christ . . . made more plain and lovely."
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rosetta E. Ross
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.092396073
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.11
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Manufacturer: African American Images
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George G. M. James
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Publisher: African American Images
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2002-04-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Challenging the notion that civilization started in Greece, this uncompromising classic attempts to prove that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not Greeks but Egyptians. The text asserts that the praise and honor blindly given to the Greeks for centuries rightfully belong to the people of Africa, and argues that the theft of this great African legacy led to the erroneous world opinion that the African continent has made no contribution to civilization. Quoting such celebrated Greek scholars as Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Thales, and Pythagoras, who admit to the influence of Egyptian studies in their work, this edition sheds new light on traditional philosophical and historical thought. Originally published in 1954, this book features a new introduction.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $11.47
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jill Watts
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1995-02-13
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Reading Level: 249
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Description: How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?
Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious leaders, Father Divine. Starting as an itinerant preacher, Father Divine built an unprecedented movement that by the 1930s had attracted followers across the nation and around the world. As his ministry grew, so did the controversy surrounding his enormous wealth, flamboyant style, and committed "angels"--black and white, rich and poor alike.
Here for the first time a full account of Father Divine's childhood and early years challenges previous contentions that he was born into a sharecropping family in the deep South. While earlier biographers have concentrated on Father Divine's social and economic programs, Watts focuses on his theology, which gives new meaning to secular activities that often appeared contradictory. Although much has been written about Father Divine, God, Harlem U.S.A. finally provides a balanced and intimate account of his life's work.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $11.69
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Manufacturer: P & R Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven Tsoukalas
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Publisher: P & R Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 297.87
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Publication Date: 2001-05
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Reading Level: 211
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $39.20
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edith Bruder
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 960.004924
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Publication Date: 2008-05-29
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The last several decades have seen the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a Jewish "rebirth" that is occurring throughout Africa. A variety of different ethnic groups proclaim that they are returning to long-forgotten Jewish roots, and African clans trace their lineage to the Lost Tribes of Israel. Africans have encountered Jewish myths and traditions in multiple forms and various ways. The context and circumstances of these encounters have gradually led, within some African societies, to the elaboration of a new Jewish identity connected with that of the Diaspora.
This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in western, central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism. It particularly seeks to identify and to assess colonial influences and their internalization by African societies in the shaping of new African religious identities. The book also examines how, in the absence of recorded African history, the eminently malleable accounts of Jewish lineage developed by African groups co-exist with the possible historical traces of a Jewish presence in Africa.
This elegant and well-researched book goes beyond the well-known case of the Falasha of Ethiopia, examining the trend towards Judaism in Africa at large, and exploring, too, the interdisciplinary concepts of "metaphorical Diaspora," global and transnational identities, and colonization.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $11.65
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gayraud S. Wilmore
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Edition: Revised 3rd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.8996073
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Publication Date: 1998-02
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Reading Level: 328
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