PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE TOPICS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK
AMERICA
PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST
African Americans in History 1996, The University of Georgia African American
Studies, viewed 26 October 2006,
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Burch, A 2006, ‘Book Captures the Black Church Experience’, Miami Herald,
16 April.
Copeland, M.S 2000, ‘Tradition and the Traditions of African American Catholicism’, Theological Studies, vol. 61, no. 4, p.1.
Gite, L 1993, ‘The New Agenda of the Black Church: Economic Development for Black America’, Black Enterprise, December.
Lincoln, E and Mamiya, L 1990, The Black Church in the African-American Experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Mjagkij, N 2001, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, New York.
Phelps, J 1997, Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee.
Philogène, G 1999, From Black to African American: A New Social Representation, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT.
Raboteau, A 1995, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Beacon Press, Boston.
The African American Migration Experience 2006, In Motion Website, viewed
26 October 2006, .
Sernett, M 1999, African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Weems, R 2005, ‘Black America and Religion’, Ebony, November.
Wright, W.D 2002, Critical Reflections on Black History, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
African Americans in History 1996, The University of Georgia Institute of African American Studies, viewed 26 October 2006,
.
This page is contained in the University of Georgia Institute of African American Studies website. On this page brief biographical sketches of several key figures in African American history are presented. The brief biographies include the lives of Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Alexander Crummell, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, E. Franklin Frazier, James Langston Hughes, Charles Drew, Margaret Walker, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorraine Hansberry, Colin Powell, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, August Wilson, Carole Mosely-Braun, and Cynthia A. McKinney.
Burch, A 2006, ‘Book Captures the Black Church Experience’, Miami Herald, 16 April.
This magazine article discusses a new book entitled Johnson's Soul Sanctuary by Jason Miccolo. The author of the article views the book as a volume that captures the black church life in impressive images. It explores the black church, illustrating it as a glorious institution that embodies much of America's black community. The book is a collection of stories plucked from churches across the country and features three Florida churches including New Birth Baptist Church Cathedral of Faith in North Miami-Dade. The article opined that the book is an ambitious endeavor to capture the traditional rhythm and blues of the black church in an age when the faith and practice of religion are evolving.
Copeland, M.S 2000, ‘Tradition and the Traditions of African American Catholicism’, Theological Studies, vol. 61, no. 4, p.1.
This journal article speaks about tradition in general and the traditions of African American Catholicism. The first part of the article uncovers the reception and transmission of Tradition by 19th-century Black Catholics and undertakes to bring out some of the theological themes in the Address of the Fourth Colored Catholic Congress in 1893. It discusses the fact that African American Catholicism is not a 20th-century phenomenon. To prove this fact, the article demonstrates that Black Catholics had a vibrant ecclesial, devotional, and sacramental life in St. Augustine in Florida even before the British settlement in 1607, the arrival of Africans on the Dutch man-of-war in Jamestown in Virginia in 1619, and the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620. The second part of the article focuses on African American cultural retrieval as popular religion and briefly sketches the veneration of the ancestors and Marian iconography. The third part draws out the Black Catholic subject of Tradition.
Gite, L 1993, ‘The New Agenda of the Black Church: Economic Development for Black America’, Black Enterprise, December.
This magazine article tackles about the new economic direction employed by the Black churches in America. It narrates the stand of black churches that the Black people in America should be able to stand on their own for survival. In response to this, the black churches are on an economic endeavor to provide much needed jobs and businesses like shopping centers and senior citizen housing to the Black community. The business stories of some black churches like Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bridge Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, First African Methodist Episcopal (FAME) Church of Los Angeles, Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, Mendenhall Bible Church in Mississippi, and Greater Christ Temple Church in Meridian, Mississippi are presented. It also includes a related article on how to set up an economic development plan for a church.
Lincoln, E and Mamiya, L 1990, The Black Church in the African-American Experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
This book is founded on the basic premise that black religion is significantly part and parcel of the American experience in religion. It is a study that took 10 years to complete and one of the most thorough examinations of the scope, internal structure and significance of the Black church in contemporary society. The contents are patterned from the interviews with more than 1,800 Black clergy in both rural and urban settings. The topics explored in the volume range from the attitude of the church toward women pastors, to the reaction of the church to the Civil Rights Movement and to the trends that will define the Black church in the next century. The research offers important insights into the growth and development of the Black church as well.
Mjagkij, N 2001, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, New York.
This book is the most comprehensive reference work illustrating the rich history of black associations in America and their leaders. Organized alphabetically, the encyclopedia seeks to provide easy access to information about associations established by African Americans, such as the National Negro Business League; interracial organizations that served a predominantly black constituency, such as the National Urban League; groups working in the interest of African Americans, such as the President's Committee on Civil Rights; and association activities in cities with a significant black population, such as Chicago and New York. Entries trace the origins, goals, founders, membership, staff, activities, achievements, failures, and demise of African American associations. Moreover, they assess the historical significance of black organizations and the contributions of individuals who assumed leadership positions within their respective associations.
Phelps, J 1997, Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee.
This book is a first of its kind volume where scholars jointly address issues related to the African-American Catholic experience. It discusses theology, theological education, ethics, scripture and history in light of the African American experience. It also presents the collective concerns of scholars about the state of Catholic higher education. The book aspires to provide a basis of knowledge for the reform of the entire American academic curriculum in such a way that the unity of the educational experience will be enhanced by the diversity of the traditions that make up that unity.
Philogène, G 1999, From Black to African American: A New Social Representation, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT.
Gina Philogène, in this book, extends the theory of social representations to the realm of racism. This book uncovers in great detail the emergence of "African American" and the meaning taken by this term, the fusion of contrasts between the first part of the word combination, emphasizing the difference between Blacks and Whites, and the second part, which highlights what they have in common as Americans. The author undertakes a reinterpretation of classical works from Katz and Braly and puts them into a new perspective. Then she broadens her field of investigation to the representation pushed forward by the African Americans, in the quest for an identity which defines them neither by their physical appearance, by their propensity to obey, nor by memories of exclusion, so as to open a field to free their energy, their vitality, after touching the depth of racial discrimination and after the efforts of the last twenty years.
Raboteau, A 1995, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Beacon Press, Boston.
This book is a collection of eleven essays representing the result of attempts to understand the religious history of black Americans and to ascertain what that particular history means for the nation as a whole. Seven of the eleven essays have been published previously; some are new; a few have circulated widely in photocopy. This collection aims to encourage a renewed discussion of the racial and religious history of the nation as it moves rapidly toward the end of the twentieth century, a century dominated, as W. E. B. Du Bois predicted, by the "problem of the color line." The long encounter of black and white Americans, which began tragically under slavery and still proceeds under the long shadow of the plantation, remains the paradigmatic test of the national experiment.
The African American Migration Experience 2006, In Motion Website, viewed 26 October 2006, .
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience is a website organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the American nation with more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. It presents a new interpretation of African-American history with a focus on the self-motivated activities of people of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. It also explains the extraordinary diversity of African Americans living in the United States today
Sernett, M 1999, African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
This widely-heralded collection of fifty remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of Black Nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology of today. The documents include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume, Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan's farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail. This expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. The author wishes to expand readership for this edition to those who will make the transition to the next millennium in preservation of the rich tapestry of the African American religious experience.
Weems, R 2005, ‘Black America and Religion’, Ebony, November.
This article narrates the central role of religion as a “shelter in the time of storm” for the African Americans. It illustrates the trend of thinking of successive generations of African Americans about some of the cherished traditions associated with the Black church. The article discusses the emergence of Black mega-churches and the Neo-Pentecostal renewal as the two most significant trends in the history of African American religion and the Black church. The author’s purpose is to illustrate how the mega churches, neo-pentecostal renewal, Muslim influence and social activism, and woman’s leadership of the church help shape how African Americans view, talk about and communicate with God throughout the years.
Wright, W.D 2002, Critical Reflections on Black History, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
This seven-chapter book represents an effort to augment the critical capacity of Black history. There are three primary ways in which the reflections of the chapters are critical: with respect to scholarship or commentary, analysis, and use of language. These chapters are presented to lay out additional discussions on the subject to the knowledge provided by other scholars over the last four decades. The volume offers definition of “Black history” on the basis of the struggles of the Black people in America from their early beginnings as slaves until the present day. The book includes discussions on the history of Black women as an under-researched and underwritten field in American history. It aspires to produce some revelations about America and observations about the role that Black women have played in American history and their contributions to it. Other contents of the book center on the famous African American people who made extraordinary contributions to the history of Blacks in the nation as well as different critical analyses on race, racism, slavery, class and gender issues.
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