"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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Page 47
... eulogy is grounded in the colorful language of the Black preacher whose message offers mourners spiritual food during a dry season of death . An example of this is noted in Bacon's article " Just A Closer Walk With Thee " where he ...
... eulogy is grounded in the colorful language of the Black preacher whose message offers mourners spiritual food during a dry season of death . An example of this is noted in Bacon's article " Just A Closer Walk With Thee " where he ...
Page 73
... eulogy given by Reverend Brown was the catalyst for transforming the service into a Sunday morning worship service similar to Mother Evans ' . My great grandmother's eulogy will be discussed in fuller detail later . Her eulogy was the ...
... eulogy given by Reverend Brown was the catalyst for transforming the service into a Sunday morning worship service similar to Mother Evans ' . My great grandmother's eulogy will be discussed in fuller detail later . Her eulogy was the ...
Page 76
... eulogy , as in the other cases , provided comfort for the family and challenged the survivors to emulate their mother's faith . The performative elements of the eulogy and attire represented old and new traditions relating to African ...
... eulogy , as in the other cases , provided comfort for the family and challenged the survivors to emulate their mother's faith . The performative elements of the eulogy and attire represented old and new traditions relating to African ...
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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