Hefferan,Tara (Editor), Adkins,Julie (Editor), and Occhipinti,Laurie (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 238 p.
Notes:
Includes /Bretton Alvaré's "Fighting for 'livity': Rastafari politics in a neoliberal state" and Tara L. Hefferan's "Encouraging development 'alternatives': grassroots church partnering in the U.S. and Haiti"
Writer Zora Neale Hurston notes the identity and culture of the Africans in the U.S., in which there is struggle in resisting with violence against the slave societies and racial discrimination to maintain the culture. Mentions the association of black ritual practices on Hurston's writings, "Mules and Men" and "Moses, Man of the Mountain," where slavery is considered as factor of spreading the folk arts.
