African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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182 p., Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.
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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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3 pp., Argues that religion in the Caribbean and Latin America embody "gender ideology," the dialectical contradictions expressed in moments of patriarchal dominance and feminism and women’s liberation. These influence and guide the action of a particular class or social group in its own interest.
