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RfRx 6/5/21 - Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: Trauma and Black Religious Respectability with Sikivu Hutchinson
Recovering from Religion
In this RfRx talk, Sikivu Hutchinson discusses the major themes of Black feminist identity and artistic control in her new road novel "Rock 'n' Roll Heretic", vis-a-vis overcoming trauma, victim-blaming and silence around sexual violence, misogynoir (anti-Black misogyny) and corruption in faith-based communities.
📄 Articles(8)
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Contradiction: A Question Of Faith
Jeremiah Camara
Contradiction addresses the saturation of churches in Black neighborhoods coexisting with poverty and powerlessness. Why are there so many churches yet so many problems? Is there a correlation between high-praise and low-productivity?
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Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism In America
Jeremiah Camara
Holy Hierarchy explains how the notions of a Supreme Being in colonial Virginia led to beliefs of supreme human beings and how these beliefs morphed their way into the legal system; ultimately creating racism and turning it into an racism into institution.
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Contradiction: A Question of Faith
Jeremiah Camara, Lawrence Krauss, Greydon Square
A Documentary Film: So many churches in black neighborhoods, but so much poverty and powerlessness; Why?
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Emancipation of a Black Atheist
Dauv Evans
Great journeys often start with a single question. For Dauv, that question was, "Why Do I Believe in God?"
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Ebony Exodus Project (Book)
Candace R. M. Gorham
Author Candace R. M. Gorham is a former evangelical minister explaining why some black women are leaving religion
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Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (Humanism in Practice)
Sikivu Hutchinson
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor--a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men.
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.
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Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Aishah Shahidah Simmons,
Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system.
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Refiguring American Music)
Maureen Mahon
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll--from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
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The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion―and Others Should Too
Candace R. M. Gorham LPC
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Black Nonbelievers
The mission of Black Nonbelievers is to rovide secular fellowship. • Provide secular fellowship. • Nurture and support nonbelievers in "coming out" (ie, openly identify). • Encourage pride in nonreligious identities. • Organize events and other charitable causes. Black Nonbelievers (BN) is a 501 c3 non-profit organization. Headquartered in the Atlanta area, BN provides an informative, caring, festive and friendly community, and connects with other Blacks (and allies) who are living free of religion and might otherwise