"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... serving on my committee . Thanks is also extended to Professor Nellie McKay for serving on my committee as well . To Professor Stanlie James this thesis would not have begun were it not for your class , Afro- American Families last Fall ...
... serving on my committee . Thanks is also extended to Professor Nellie McKay for serving on my committee as well . To Professor Stanlie James this thesis would not have begun were it not for your class , Afro- American Families last Fall ...
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... served as the appropriate time and space for survivors to come face to face with death in a way that went beyond the occasion itself . Paris notes , that " funerals were especially important to Africans , and often were expensive ...
... served as the appropriate time and space for survivors to come face to face with death in a way that went beyond the occasion itself . Paris notes , that " funerals were especially important to Africans , and often were expensive ...
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... served as an usher , Sunday School teacher , fund raiser , choir member , church mother , and missionary . In addition , she was a founding member of Union Tabernacle Church of God in Christ II , in Madison , Wisconsin , where she 86 ...
... served as an usher , Sunday School teacher , fund raiser , choir member , church mother , and missionary . In addition , she was a founding member of Union Tabernacle Church of God in Christ II , in Madison , Wisconsin , where she 86 ...
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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