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| Coming through the Fire
ISBN: 9780822378433
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: African American authors; Authors American; Racism;
Noted scholar Lincoln (The Black Church in the African-American Experience) mixes reminiscence with commentary in a textured, wise meditation on race. He learned lifelong lessons in Jim Crow Alabama, beaten at 13 by a white cotton gin owner. He reflects on his stimulating high school education, thanks to Yankee schoolmarms and how W. J. Cash's famous The Mind of the South insultingly left out black folk. He attempts to untangle the tensions between blacks and Jews and muses on the evolution of the black church and group identity. Lincoln warns that black violence is part of historical American violence; only a reclamation of values and a recognition of Americans' joint future will solve our racial dilemmas. Some of his prescription may be vague, but he also includes savvy advice, suggesting that transracial adoption offers the chance to "start undoing the racial mischief at its source." (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
C. Eric Lincoln (1924-2000) was, at the time of his death, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Duke University. His widely acclaimed publications include The Black Muslims in America ; The Black Church since Frazier ; Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma ; and, with Lawrence H. Mamiya and published by Duke University Press, The Black Church in the African American Experience . He has also written a novel, The Avenue, Clayton City , now published in paperback by Duke University Press, and a collection of poems, This Road since Freedom . He is the founding president of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
