Introduction: Sunday morning: anthropology of a church -- The first Afrikan way: method and context -- Situating the self: becoming Afrikan in America -- "Who I am and whose I am": race and religion -- Ebony affluence: Afrocentric middle classness -- Eve's positionality: Afrocentric and womanist ideologies -- Conclusion: The benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O
Summary
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the author examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and black theology as a means of negotiation the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American
