God and Blackness: Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church, Abrams Andrea C.

Автор: Abrams Andrea C.
Название: God and Blackness
ISBN: 0814705235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814705230
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Blackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth. Despite the fact that it is elusive and difficult to define, blackness serves as one of the most potent and unifying domains of identity.
God and Blackness offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community—that of the First Afrikan Church, a middle-class Afrocentric congregation in Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in?depth interviews, Andrea C. Abrams examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and Black theology as a means of negotiating the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American. Specifically, Abrams examines the ways in which First Afrikan’s construction of community is influenced by shared understandings of blackness, and probes the means through which individuals negotiate the tensions created by competing constructions of their black identity. Although Afrocentrism operates as the focal point of this discussion, the book examines questions of political identity, religious expression and gender dynamics through the lens of a unique black church.

Автор: Trunk, Eddie Bussell, Andrea
Название: Eddie Trunk`s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
ISBN: 0810998319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810998315
Издательство: Abrams
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Описание: Eddie Trunk is one of the leading experts on Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. EDDIE TRUNK'S ESSENTIAL will cover his favourite bands with a brief overview of their career highlights, the albums and songs that Eddie considers important and why, and many personal recollections of his experiences with these bands over the course of his career. Bands include a wide range of rock acts from Black Sabbath and Zeppelin to Metallica and Megadeath to the "golden years of hard rock" which includes bands like Bon Jovi, Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses. Also included are Eddie's "Fun Facts", which consist of metal trivia and anecdotes. He has been a VJ on VH1 Classic since 2001 where he now hosts "That Metal Show", which is currently filming its third season. (The "Stump the Trunk" portion of the show is a favourite and attests to his unparalleled knowledge of metal trivia.)