The Shaping of Black Identities

Auteur

Jimmie R. Hawkins served as Director of Advocacy for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and is the author of Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America, also published by Westminster John Knox Press. He has also written for Call to Worship, Presbyterian Outlook, and Focus Magazine. Hawkins has served on the boards of Church World Service, the National Council of Churches, National Religious Campaign against Torture, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and as a tri-chair of the Washington Interreligious Staff Committee. An ordained clergy member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he holds an MA from Union Presbyterian Seminary and a MDiv from Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, and is the recipient of the 2024 Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni of the Year award.

Texte du rabat

The Shaping of Black Identities turns the traditional generational groupings on their head through an examination of Black life, culture, and the struggle for racial justice in the United States. With attention to six generations of Blacks, this book speaks to the active, liberative, and distinct historical attempt to define the self.