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Race, Religion, and Politics

Toward Human Rights in the United States

By: Stephanie Y. Mitchem

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Race, Religion, and Politics

Toward Human Rights in the United States

By: Stephanie Y. Mitchem

This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem introduces readers to the ways race has been constructed in the United States, discusses how race and religion influence each other, and assesses how they shape political influence. Mitchem concludes with a chapter looking toward possibilities for increased rights and justice for all.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538107961

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African American Folk Healing

By: Stephanie Mitchem

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African American Folk Healing

By: Stephanie Mitchem

Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.

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NYU Press

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0814757316

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Race, Religion, and Politics

Toward Human Rights in the United States

By: Stephanie Y. Mitchem

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Toward Human Rights in the United States

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Diversity, Oppression, & Change

Culturally Grounded Social Work

By: Flavio Francisco Marsiglia,Stephen S. Kulis,Stephanie Lechuga-Peña

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Diversity, Oppression, & Change

Culturally Grounded Social Work

By: Flavio Francisco Marsiglia,Stephen S. Kulis,Stephanie Lechuga-Peña

Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allied fields. The book's intersectionality perspective provides a lens through which students can identify connections between identities based on race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, and ability status. Through theoretical and empirical content as well as "Notes from the Field," students become familiar with the culturally grounded perspective and culturally appropriate ways of engaging with diverse communities. Marsiglia, Kulis, and Lechuga-Peña have crafted a book about hope and resiliency, the miraculous ability of individuals and communities to bounce back from oppressive experiences and historical trauma, and the role of social workers as allies in that journey.

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425

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Oxford University Press

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0190059524

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9780190059521

When Momma Speaks

The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective

By: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

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The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective

By: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments. After providing a brief history of womanist biblical interpretation, she shows how the stories of several biblical mothersHagar, Rizpah, Bathsheba, Mary, the Canaanite woman, and Zebedee's wifecan be powerful sources for critical reflection, identification, and empowerment. Crowder also explores historical understandings of motherhood in the African American community and how these help to inform present-day perspectives. She includes questions for discussion with each chapter.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611646782

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9781611646788

Black Women's Mental Health

Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

By: Stephanie Y. Evans,Kanika Bell,Nsenga K. Burton

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Black Women's Mental Health

Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

By: Stephanie Y. Evans,Kanika Bell,Nsenga K. Burton

Creates a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

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326

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SUNY Press

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1438465815

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9781438465814

American Protestantism in the Age of Psychology

By: Stephanie Muravchik

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American Protestantism in the Age of Psychology

By: Stephanie Muravchik

Many have worried that the ubiquitous practice of psychology and psychotherapy in America has corrupted religious faith, eroded civic virtue and weakened community life. But an examination of the history of three major psycho-spiritual movements since World War II – Alcoholics Anonymous, The Salvation Army's outreach to homeless men, and the 'clinical pastoral education' movement – reveals the opposite. These groups developed a practical religious psychology that nurtured faith, fellowship and personal responsibility. They achieved this by including religious traditions and spiritual activities in their definition of therapy and by putting clergy and lay believers to work as therapists. Under such care, spiritual and emotional growth reinforced each other. Thanks to these innovations, the three movements succeeded in reaching millions of socially alienated and religiously disenchanted Americans. They demonstrated that religion and psychology, although antithetical in some eyes, could be blended effectively to foster community, individual responsibility and happier lives.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139499610

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9781139499613

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

By: Stephanie M. Crumpton

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A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

By: Stephanie M. Crumpton

This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how many Black women approach healing.

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Springer

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1137370904

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Black Women's Yoga History

Memoirs of Inner Peace

By: Stephanie Y. Evans

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Black Women's Yoga History

Memoirs of Inner Peace

By: Stephanie Y. Evans

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.

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State University of New York Press

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1438483651

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

An Intellectual History

By: Stephanie Y. Evans

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

An Intellectual History

By: Stephanie Y. Evans

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education. Evans reveals how black women demanded space as students and asserted their voices as educators--despite such barriers as violence, discrimination, and oppressive campus policies--contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States. She argues that their experiences, ideas, and practices can inspire contemporary educators to create an intellectual democracy in which all people have a voice. Among those Evans profiles are Anna Julia Cooper, who was born enslaved yet ultimately earned a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College. Exposing the hypocrisy in American assertions of democracy and discrediting European notions of intellectual superiority, Cooper argued that all human beings had a right to grow. Bethune believed that education is the right of all citizens in a democracy. Both women's philosophies raised questions of how human and civil rights are intertwined with educational access, scholarly research, pedagogy, and community service. This first complete educational and intellectual history of black women carefully traces quantitative research, explores black women's collegiate memories, and identifies significant geographic patterns in America's institutional development. Evans reveals historic perspectives, patterns, and philosophies in academia that will be an important reference for scholars of gender, race, and education.

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University Press of Florida

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0813063051

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African American Folk Healing

By: Stephanie Mitchem

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By: Stephanie Mitchem

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Race, Religion, and Politics

Race, Religion, and Politics

African American Folk Healing

African American Folk Healing

Race, Religion, and Politics

Race, Religion, and Politics

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

When Momma Speaks

When Momma Speaks

Black Women's Mental Health

Black Women's Mental Health

American Protestantism in the Age of Psychology

American Protestantism in the Age of Psychology

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

Black Women's Yoga History

Black Women's Yoga History

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

African American Folk Healing

African American Folk Healing

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