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On the danger of reducing the Black experience to oppression:
"The continuing assumption of universal marginalization across every era of African-American history actually flattens the African-American experience and contributes to the increasing irrelevance of black preaching.1/
"The continuing assumption of universal marginalization across every era of African-American history actually flattens the African-American experience and contributes to the increasing irrelevance of black preaching.1/
The experience of African-Americans in 1830 could be fairly characteristic as near universal enslavement, oppression, and marginalization. Few would deny that. But how should we describe African-Americans in 1930?... 2/
Moreover, the1930s seem like a lifetime ago for African-Americans born around 1980. The experience of 1980s-generation African-Americans is so different from previous generations that a burgeoning number of books dare to argue for a ‘post-Black’ self-understanding… 3/
Any monolithic understanding of black experience crumbled long ago under the shifting weight of African-American progress and hard-earned victories… 4/
Yet most books published on black preaching continue to argue that the black preacher should assume a context of social and political marginalization similar to that of the 1800s and early 1900s as the starting point for the preaching task. 5/
Little wonder that black preaching might be seen as entirely irrelevant to black life today." - Thabiti Anyabwile, Reviving the Black Church, p. 39-40. Full review here: 6/6
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