In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York CityNYU Press, 1 Feb 2002 - 358 halaman Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuries |
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... ritual—are the foremost example of these. It is in these “nonrelationship groupings” that Herskovits finds a quality of “cooperative endeavor,” or an example of an African heritage in African American social institutions. Carter G ...
... ritual life, and protect the public interest. An early Mande association of enslaved people mediated disputes between servants and masters. In the Protectorate of Sierra Leone, the Poro society coordinated the 1898 uprising against ...
... ritual. Oaths and blood oaths confirmed both public and private ties and were sworn on ancestral lines. “No matter how widely scattered, rite participants remained brothers—'all of one blood,'” writes Michael Mullin in his history of ...
... ritual life over the region, and Sande was the primary women's organization. Poro and Sande descended from earlier societies. These collectives had far-reaching authority, and the dominant associations could even threaten or bolster ...
... ritual imported by Africans from the Congo region,” in Sterling Stuckey's words, “was so powerful in its elaboration of a religious vision that it contributed disproportionately to the centrality of the circle in slavery. The use of the ...
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II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the Public Sphere
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III The Transformation of African American Voluntarism | 179 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 311 |
About the Author | 333 |
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