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Honoring the ancestors : an African cultural interpretation of Black religion and literature
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Honoring the ancestors : an African cultural interpretation of Black religion and literature

Author: Donald Henry Matthews
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. Because the Negro spiritual is the earliest extant body of African-American folk religious narration, Matthews believes that it holds the key to understanding African-American religion. He explores the works of such seminal black scholars as W. E. B. DuBois, Melville Herskovits, and Zora Neale Hurston, tracing the
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Donald Henry Matthews
ISBN: 0195091043 9780195091045
OCLC Number: 36407652
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
Description: xiii, 171 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Donald H. Matthews.
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Using "The Negro Spiritual" as a source material, this volume analyzes the methods employed by social scientists, historians and literary critics in studying African-American religion, and makes its  Read more...

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