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The Creation of a Public Black Body The Creation of a Public Black Body
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The Invention of Cultural Nationalism(s) The Invention of Cultural Nationalism(s)
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Theology of a (Black) Public Theology of a (Black) Public
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The Body in Need of Freedom The Body in Need of Freedom
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The Body in Need of Discipline The Body in Need of Discipline
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The Body in Need of Recognition The Body in Need of Recognition
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The Body in Need of Integration The Body in Need of Integration
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The Body in Need of Authenticity The Body in Need of Authenticity
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The Body in Need of Transformation The Body in Need of Transformation
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Selected Texts Selected Texts
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33 African American Theology and the Public Imaginary
Get accessWillie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. An ordained Baptist minister, he is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (2010), a book that has won several prestigious awards, and a popular commentary on Acts (2017). He is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Unfolding the World: Recasting a Christian Doctrine of Creation.
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Published:01 July 2014
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Abstract
Diaspora refers to the spatial scattering of a people such as Africans, who were formed by fragmentation. Africans and other black peoples were forced to imagine the world through fragmentation. In the case of African Americans, public imaginaries essentially involve the remaking of a public, black, white, and everything in between. This essay examines a set of theologically conditioned imaginative frames that constitute an African American public imaginary. It first looks at how a public black body has been created, focusing on peoples of African descent with modern slavery, and how the black body as commodity helped to generate public space in the modern West and especially North America. It then considers the invention of cultural nationalism(s) among Africans before concluding with a discussion of bodies in need of discipline, recognition, integration, authenticity, transformation, and freedom from slavery.
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