The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 من الصفحات A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... figures Nehemiah and Ezekiel and in a lecture on the biblical imagery of Babylon that I delivered in Cuba in the ... figure of Jesus. In that summary review I said little about Hip-Hop and “Gansta” Rap, cultural forces of which I was ...
... variously " conjure , " " roots , " or " hoodoo , " bases many of its incan- tations on biblical texts and figures . Whether as slaves absconding from plantations, terrorized sharecroppers in flight from Jim Crow, or Civil XI Prologue.
... figure of Jesus inhabits what poet Sonia Sanchez has called “a theological space” in which young black people ... figures from the Bible instead of the XII PROLOGUE.
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. quilts with appliqué figures from the Bible instead of the symbols and icons of ancient myths that their African ancestors had wrought in cloth with the same techniques . As ...
... figures prominently at a meeting of the co - conspirators at Vesey's home . That night at Vesey's we determined to have arms made , and each man put in 122 cents toward that purpose . Though Vesey's room was full I did not know an ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |