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“almeda wright”

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  • The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans

    by Almeda Wright ...
    How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, Almeda M. Wright argues that African American youth separate their everyday lives and their spirituality into mutually exclusive categories. This results in a noticeable division between their experiences of systemic ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Teaching to Live

    Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change

    by Almeda M. Wright ...
    Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Many of these educators are known only or primarily for their educational theory or activism, and their religious convictions have often been obscured or outright ignored. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Teaching to Live

    Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change

    by Almeda M. Wright ...
    Narrated by Machelle Williams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Almeda M. Wright explores the connections between religion, education, and struggles for freedom within twentieth-century African American communities by telling the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Toxic War on Masculinity

    How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

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  • Divided by Faith

    Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

    by Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith ...
    Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white ... Read more

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  • The Marriage-Go-Round

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  • Gender Talk

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    by Johnnetta B. Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
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    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
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  • College

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    by Andrew Delbanco ...
    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

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  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

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