"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... Black Americans and Chicanos ( 1984 ) looks at Black and Chicano attitudes towards death from a mental and behavioral perspective . He uses empirical data to describe his findings on Blacks ' attitudes toward death . He concludes that ...
... Black Americans and Chicanos ( 1984 ) looks at Black and Chicano attitudes towards death from a mental and behavioral perspective . He uses empirical data to describe his findings on Blacks ' attitudes toward death . He concludes that ...
Page 34
... black for forty years thereafter , until her own death in 1901.87 It was this type of display that established the connection between black clothes and death . Although World War I followed Queen Victoria's death , the impact of wearing ...
... black for forty years thereafter , until her own death in 1901.87 It was this type of display that established the connection between black clothes and death . Although World War I followed Queen Victoria's death , the impact of wearing ...
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... Black life and possess precisely what the literate forms of Black intellectual activity lack . " 118 The Black preacher and the spoken word he / she espouses is grounded in the orality of language . The personification of language as ...
... Black life and possess precisely what the literate forms of Black intellectual activity lack . " 118 The Black preacher and the spoken word he / she espouses is grounded in the orality of language . The personification of language as ...
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According African American funeral African American homegoing African and African African worldview theology American homegoing celebrations American homegoing services American homegoing traditions Annie Mae Johnson Anthony Heilbut attire belief system bereavement Biblical Black Church Black preacher Brown County burial casket ceremony Charles Durant Christian African Americans Coevolution Quarterly color continuity of African Cornel West Crissman cultural continuity cultural practices deceased demonstrative expression display dress Elaine Nichols emotions enslaved Africans Eric Lincoln eulogy Euro-American European family and friends family members Felder final funeral home Funeral Traditions Gospel music grandmother grandmother's hair wreaths Heaven honor Jindra John Mbiti living loved Masamba and Kalish Mbiti writes Mother Evans mourners mourning Orleans Jazz Funerals performative elements Precious Lord presence of family processional religion represented ritual Ron Brown singing Sis Fannie Sis Fannie's slavery song South Carolina spiritual spoken word survivors Sybil Kein Take My Hand wake Washington West African wore Yoruba