Black Family Rituals Rites of Passage for the African American Family

Name: Black Family Rituals Rites of Passage for the African American Family
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ISBN: 9781436333481

ISBN-10: 1436333482

ISBN-13: 9781436333481

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Authors: Edward Sims, Thomas Gayle Snowden

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The two social institutions which have enabled Americans of African descent to survive and standfast in this "foreign and hostile land," has been the Black family and its constituent, the Black Church. The treatise rendered here is intended to present an Afrocentric view of rites of passage, namely, birth, coming of age, marriage, passing (death) and celebration, instead of the prevailing Eurocentric motifs which have become the norm in American culture. "We have attempted to concretize and synthesize the most helpful interpretations of African and African-American culture, into meaninfully ritualistic forms." In essence, Black Family rituals allows all readers, irrespective of race,…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation LLC
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English