"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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Page 69
... told me , " you bury a woman who has reached the age of seventy or more in white and a younger person in pink or blue . " The reason for choosing white for Sis Fannie can be linked to white as the color represented by a Christian life ...
... told me , " you bury a woman who has reached the age of seventy or more in white and a younger person in pink or blue . " The reason for choosing white for Sis Fannie can be linked to white as the color represented by a Christian life ...
Page 78
... told me later , that Ruth , the cousin never observed traditional funeral attire . Like my cousin Junell at my great - grandmother's homegoing service , Ruth doesn't follow the southern tradition of wearing all black or white . As ...
... told me later , that Ruth , the cousin never observed traditional funeral attire . Like my cousin Junell at my great - grandmother's homegoing service , Ruth doesn't follow the southern tradition of wearing all black or white . As ...
Page 82
... told of a time he and Brown played street - ball with disadvantaged youth in Los Angeles . Finally , the spoken word evoked tears when Alexis Herman read the Beatitudes from the Gospel according to Matthew . When she got to " Blessed ...
... told of a time he and Brown played street - ball with disadvantaged youth in Los Angeles . Finally , the spoken word evoked tears when Alexis Herman read the Beatitudes from the Gospel according to Matthew . When she got to " Blessed ...
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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