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African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture. Oxford University Press; Sensbach, Jon F. Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005) Smith, R. Drew, ed. Long March ahead: African American churches and public policy in post-civil rights America (2004).
Today, over 1,000 Black-led nonprofit organizations are championing causes of social justice, education, and cultural preservation. ... Established in 2017, the African American Cultural Heritage ...
African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Southern United States. They derive from traditional African religions with some influence from other religious traditions, notably Christianity and Islam ...
African American Language, or AAL, is another term that is broader and includes aspects of language that can't be interpreted, like facial expressions or other gestures common among Black people ...
The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald discusses what the author calls: the ARC or African Religion Complex, which was a collection of eight traits that all the enslaved Africans had in common and were somewhat familiar to all held in the agricultural slave labor camps known as plantation communities.
Johnson describes bystanders as African Americans who lack patriotism for the United States and are detached from American history and values. [1] Furthermore, these individuals also tend to be detached from blackness and often espouse a color-blind , meritocratic understanding of society.