And the culture they created was sublime, awesome, majestic, lofty, glorious, and at all points subversive of the larger culture of enslavement that sought to destroy their humanity.” Deeply informative, and personal, The Black Church both tenderly recounts Gates’s childhood experiences and is fearless about sexism and sexuality, in a section titled “The Church’s Double Bind.”Ģ. “Collectively and with enormous effort, they refused to allow that to happen. “The Black Church was the cultural cauldron that Black people created to combat a system designed in every way to crush their spirit,” he writes. (Penguin Press)Ī companion to his PBS documentary, Gates’s book evokes the rich, dynamic history of black churches as they evolved as a source of strength and inspiration for centuries. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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