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Fortress Introduction to Black Church History
By Anne H. Penn and Anthony B. Pinn
Religion/African
Book Review
Fortress Introduction to Black Church History
"This book will be welcomed by all who seek a
concise, readable history of the origins and growth of African American
denominationalism in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Its format makes it an excellent guide for both adult reading and youth
study group."--Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary,
author of The Spirituality of African Peoples
"A detailed and comprehensive treatment, the
Fortress Introduction to Black Church History
examines all the historic black
denominations--their origin, history, theology, and witness; their
bureaucratic structures, splits and realignments; their fight for social
justice and the crucial role of black Christian women. Anyone concerned
about the larger relation between religion and society will do well to
read this book."--Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Divinity
School
This concise and accessible history, co-authored by a
black minister and a black theologian, provides an overview of the shape
and history of major black religious bodies: Methodist, Baptist, and
Pentecostal. With photos, timelines, profiles, and additional readings,
Pinn and Pinn ably explain the evolution of black Christianity into the
groups we know today. A final chapter sketches the more just American
society. The Pinn's book will help a new generation of black American
assess the religious legacy of the black churches and the larger society
to gauge their social import.
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Anne H. Penn is Pastor of Mt.
Zion A.M.E Church, Buffalo, New York, and President of the African Methodist
Ministers' Alliance
Anthony B. Pinn is Associate Professor of
religious Studies at Macalester College, St. Paul. Among the publications are Varieties
of African American Religious Experience (Fortress Press, 1998) and Why
Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (1995) |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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