scholarly journals Black Preaching in Brown Places: Towards the Development of a Black Mestizo Homiletic

Homiletic ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Black Neighborhoods ◽  
Black Preaching

Many Black neighborhoods across the United States are becoming increasingly Latin@. Black churches in these neighborhoods will need to adjust their ministry practices in order to build community amongst this changing demographic. Borrowing Elizondo’s notion of mestizo as one who can operate as both insider and outsider in different cultural locations, this paper begins to reimagine Black preaching in the churches that serve these changing neighborhoods. Using the postcolonial themes of marginality, hybridity, and self-reflexivity, this paper proposes the beginnings of a Black Mestizo homiletic that looks to merge Black and Latin@ preaching traditions in order to form congregations representative of the community.

Strengthening partnerships between Black Churches and HIV service providers in the United States

AIDS Care ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1119-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher O. Obong'o ◽  
Latrice C. Pichon ◽  
Terrinieka W. Powell ◽  
Andrea L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Hiv Service Providers

To Condemn or Not to Condemn: Perceived Climates Concerning Sexual Orientation in Black Churches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luther Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
General Population ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Potential Explanation ◽  
Black Christians ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Although the United States is becoming more accepting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) identities, black people are still more likely than the general population to disapprove of non-heterosexuality. Previous research points to the conservative views of the Black Church as a potential explanation for this disparity, but few studies have considered the diversity of perspectives within the Black Church. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with black Christians, this article examines how black congregants experience their churches’ climates concerning sexual orientation. Findings suggest that black congregations tend to foster climates that are not affirming of non-heterosexuality; however, they vary in how they demonstrate non-affirmation. Furthermore, the study finds considerable differences in how congregants perceive and make sense of their perceived church climates concerning non-heterosexuality. These results suggest that the Black Church is not monolithic in its stance concerning sexuality and have implications for efforts to promote LGBQ inclusion within congregations.

“We Are Negroes!”

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Brandon R. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Black Schools ◽  
Black And White

This essay examines the ideas and activism of a woman calling herself Madame Parque, who traveled across the United States giving lectures to black and white audiences during the 1870s. Claiming to be a well-educated, multilingual, and mixed-race Haitian educator, Parque spoke at courthouses, black churches, and black schools throughout the United States, mocking racism and sexism and celebrating Afro-diasporic history and black identity. The woman who presented herself as a Haitian named Madame Parque emboldened African Americans striving for meaningful freedom and prodded white Americans to develop more enlightened perspectives about black people. Her story captures the dynamic ways in which black women influenced the directions of black thought in the postemancipation United States.

Painting the Gospel Blues

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kymberly N. Pinder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Black Empowerment ◽  
The Church ◽  
Underlying Theme

This chapter examines William E. Scott's murals at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, including his 1936 Life of Christ series. Originally a synagogue designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler in 1891, Pilgrim became the home of one the country's most politically influential black churches when sold to the congregation in 1920. In the 1930s Thomas A. Dorsey introduced blues singing into regular church services, making Baptist the birthplace of gospel music and one of the first megachurches in the United States. The chapter considers the support provided by Junius C. Austin, a prominent advocate of social change and black empowerment, to Scott's goals to create images that promoted black pride through a very conventional, representational painting style at Pilgrim Baptist Church. It also discusses the role of Scott and Dorsey in creating a visually and sonically inclusive atmosphere at the church. Finally, it highlights rebirth or resurrection, politically and socially, as the underlying theme of much of the rhetoric about the future of African Americans during the period.

The American Context as an Area for Research in Black Church Studies

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winthrop S. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Black Church Studies ◽  
Church Studies

A striking feature of religious life in the United States has been the strength and vitality of the black churches. How is the distinctive character of these churches, as well as their strength and vitality, to be explained and understood?

Rumba

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet McMains
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Working Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Ballroom Dancing ◽  
Black Neighborhoods ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
White Elite

Rumba refers to a genre of Afro-Cuban dance music played on hand percussion, including the subgenres of rumba yambú, rumba guaguancó, and rumba columbia. It is danced by a single couple or solo dancer in an African style with playful improvised steps featuring segmented movements of the hips, torso, and shoulders. Rumba, which evolved in late-nineteenth-century working-class, black neighborhoods of Matanzas, Cuba, was marginalized by Cuba’s white elite until the Castro regime embraced it as a symbol of modern national identity in the 1970s. Since the 1980s, rumba increasingly became a major feature of Cuban cultural export and cultural tourism, figuring prominently in Cuba’s modernization strategy through sale of state-sponsored folklore. Rumba also refers to a style of modern ballroom dancing that developed in the 1930s in the United States, England, and Europe that was loosely based on the Cuban music and dance form called son. In its early practice, ballroom rumba was characterized by a small box step incorporating swaying of the hips and partnered turns borrowed from American ballroom dances.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

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