"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... belief points to a cultural continuity inherent in African Americans ' belief system . The diasporic approach to death is also described in Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit which states , the " Bakongo believe and hold it ...
... belief points to a cultural continuity inherent in African Americans ' belief system . The diasporic approach to death is also described in Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit which states , the " Bakongo believe and hold it ...
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... belief that God always sides with the underdog . Given Africans ' history of being uprooted from their homeland , transported through the " middle passage " and enslaved , the stories which they brought with them about God's deliverance ...
... belief that God always sides with the underdog . Given Africans ' history of being uprooted from their homeland , transported through the " middle passage " and enslaved , the stories which they brought with them about God's deliverance ...
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... belief rejects Western thought that professes that Africans , like the Native Americans , were savages who needed to be rescued by the white man . Another prevalent belief asserts that the slaves received Christianity as a result of the ...
... belief rejects Western thought that professes that Africans , like the Native Americans , were savages who needed to be rescued by the white man . Another prevalent belief asserts that the slaves received Christianity as a result of the ...
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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