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Course Titles
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African American Religions, 1500-2000
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 200.8996073 J696AISBN: 9780521198530Publication Date: 2015-08-06This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the relationship between empire and democratic freedom. -
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration
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ISBN: 9781479841325Publication Date: 2017-11-14Drawn from a wide variety of sources, this text is a lived religious history of Black Catholics in Chicago that demonstrates how new characters and conclusions come to the fore when we move Black Catholics from the margins of our stories to their centre. -
The Black Coptic Church
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 299.67 M478b 2023ISBN: 9781479816453Publication Date: 2023-07-25An illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches. -
Black Religion and Black Radicalism
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 291 W744B1983ISBN: 9780883440322Publication Date: 1983-10-01Views the political role of Black religious institutions in America from historical and theological perspectives. -
Black Theology and Black Power
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 230 C747BISBN: 9780062548641Publication Date: 1989-09-01Black Theology & Black Power is James H. Cone's initial attempt to identify liberation as the heart of the Christian gospel, and blackness as the primary mode of God's presence. -
From the Bullet to the Ballot
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Call Number: Chicago Collection (1st floor) ; 323.1196073 W7242F 2013ISBN: 9780807838167Publication Date: 2013-02-28In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. -
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
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ISBN: 0190634901Publication Date: 2018-12-07Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field draws on a trove of previously unexamined archival sources that illuminate Jackson's childhood in New Orleans and her negotiation of parallel careers as a singing Baptist evangelist and a mass media entertainer, documenting the unfolding material and symbolic influence of Jackson and black gospel music in postwar American society. -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 297.87092 M298MISBN: 9780143120322Publication Date: 2011-12-28Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. -
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 305.8 M875OISBN: 9780029221204Publication Date: 1984-10-01An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963. -
Passionately Human, No Less Divine
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Call Number: Chicago Collection (1st floor) ; 277.311082 B561p2005ISBN: 0691115788Publication Date: 2005-07-25Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward. -
Walkin' the Talk
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Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 277.3083 S743w2005ISBN: 9780829815221Publication Date: 2005-10-01Historically Black churches have stood in the gap providing not only a place of worship but also sources of mutual aid, educational encouragement, and cultural identity for their members in a society that denied them full rights as American citizens.
Faith Organization Websites
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New Covenant Coptic TempleOne of several Black Coptic Churches in Chicago
