From the Sacred Sound of the Conch Shell to the Cemetery Dance: Reimagining an Africana Festival Created in a Southern Appalachian City

To contemplate African American experience and its many racialized contours is to invoke a tensive quandary concerning the reconstruction of African American cultural identity in a dynamic network of historically assailed African diasporas. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach that deploys histori...

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Main Author: Harvey, Marcus L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-30
Further subjects:B black cultural identity
B Epistemology
B Memory
B Affrilachia
B Goombay
B African Diaspora
B African-Jamaican religions
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