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Black Church : This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101984880357
ISBN-139781984880352
eBay Product ID (ePID)27050420153
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlack Church : this Is Our Story, this Is Our Song
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicChristian Church / History, Civil Rights, People & Places / United States / African American, African American
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Political Science, Juvenile Nonfiction, History
AuthorHenry Louis Gates Jr.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-042098
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal277.3008996073
SynopsisFor the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a centre of gravity - an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbours gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to the modern political landscape., The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again "Engaging. . . . In Gates's telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth--as it is in heaven." --Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box , and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity--an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today's political landscape. At road's end, and after Gates's distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative--as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery's formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn't even past--Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community's most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society's darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
LC Classification NumberBR563.B53
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