From the Sacred Sound of the Conch Shell to the Cemetery Dance: Reimagining an Africana Festival Created in a Southern Appalachian City
To contemplate African American experience and its many racialized contours is to invoke a tensive quandary concerning the reconstruction of African American cultural identity in a dynamic network of historically assailed African diasporas. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach that deploys histori...
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Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-30 |
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black cultural identity
B Epistemology B Memory B Affrilachia B Goombay B African Diaspora B African-Jamaican religions |
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