"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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Page 9
... enslaved relatives paid great attention to keeping the spirits happy by having death celebrations . An archaeological analysis of African - American mortuary behavior conducted by Cynthia Connor looks at the practice of syncretism in ...
... enslaved relatives paid great attention to keeping the spirits happy by having death celebrations . An archaeological analysis of African - American mortuary behavior conducted by Cynthia Connor looks at the practice of syncretism in ...
Page 32
... enslaved in the United States maintained . This cultural connection is carried out in the creative form of a final rites of passage ceremony which is the homegoing celebration . Paris also notes , “ emphasizing the continuities between ...
... enslaved in the United States maintained . This cultural connection is carried out in the creative form of a final rites of passage ceremony which is the homegoing celebration . Paris also notes , “ emphasizing the continuities between ...
Page 95
... enslaved Africans accepted their fate passively . Rather , this understanding reaffirms their faith in a just God who delivers the enslaved from bondage . A belief in the afterlife becomes paramount and makes the service acknowledging ...
... enslaved Africans accepted their fate passively . Rather , this understanding reaffirms their faith in a just God who delivers the enslaved from bondage . A belief in the afterlife becomes paramount and makes the service acknowledging ...
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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