God Don't Like Ugly,9780687087990

God Don't Like Ugly

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ISBN13: 9780687087990
ISBN10: 0687087996
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Abingdon Pr
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Summary

Countering dire pronouncements of the irrelevance of African American institutions, Teresa L. Fry Brown celebrates the way African American women continue, often invisibly, the task of passing on moral wisdom in African-American families, churches, and communities. The book begins with the author's analysis of intergenerational transmission of spiritual values as depicted in selected African American women's literature written since 1960 (gospel music, poems, novels, short stories, and autobiography). An interpretive framework is grounded in three ethical presuppositions based on traditional African American spiritual values, African American Theology and Ethics, Womanist Christology and Ethics, and values culled from the author's own experience and religious beliefs.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(6)
Introduction 15(4)
Reaffirming Cultural Roots: You Bettah Hold Ontah Whatcha Got
19(22)
When All God's Children Get Together
23(6)
Bless Be the tie That Binds
29(7)
You Always Have Your Family
36(5)
Wisdom Bearers: The Mother Wit of Sistuh Girlfriends
41(22)
The Bible Tells Me So
43(1)
It's All About Love
44(3)
You Know You Know How to Act
47(6)
Girlfriend, Speak for Yourself!
53(2)
We're Empowered Women
55(8)
Listening to Experience: Why Are You Actin' Like You Don't Hear Me?
63(24)
Voices of Foremothers
65(3)
No Longer a Stepsister
68(8)
It's the Laying on of Hands
76(4)
Standing in the Gap: An Analysis of Black Women's Moral Wisdom
80(1)
You Can't Teach What You Don't Know
81(2)
Better Mind How You Treat Your Neighbors
83(1)
A Change Has Got to Come
84(3)
Acting Lessons: God Don't Like Ugly
87(26)
God Don't Like Ugly
88(2)
Give Me a Clean Heart
90(3)
Speak to Me
93(2)
Through It All
95(5)
Reach Out and Touch
100(3)
Show Me the Way
103(5)
Don't You Know God Is Able?
108(5)
Spiritual Connections: We Are All Aunt Haggie's Children
113(20)
If I Can Help Somebody
116(1)
Down Deep in the Soul
117(2)
Do Lord Remember Me?
119(3)
We Are All in This Thing Together
122(6)
I Can Do All Things
128(5)
Faith-Filled Perseverance: Trouble Don't Last Always
133(24)
Nobody But Jesus
135(4)
Keep Your Hand on the Plow--Hold On
139(4)
Learning to Stand Up Straight
143(3)
If You Just Hold Out
146(5)
My Soul Looks Back
151(6)
Community Responsibilities: It Takes an Entire Village to Raise a Child
157(26)
Rites of Passage
160(3)
The Full Circle Intergenerational Project
163(1)
Back to the Kitchen Table
164(3)
Northeast Denver Learning Resource Center
167(2)
Summary
169(2)
Ethnographic Tools for Self-Empowerment
171(2)
Self-Empowerment Through the Stories and Lives of Historical African American Women
173(1)
Self-Empowerment Through the Lives of African American Women in Literature
174(1)
Saving Families, Transforming Communities
175(1)
Inside the Circle, Yet Outside the Center
176(2)
The End of the Matter
178(2)
Conclusion
180(3)
Appendix 183(2)
Notes 185(20)
Bibliography 205(8)
Index 213

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