Product Description: This text is a concise history of Anglo American racism and school policies affecting dominated groups in the United States. It focuses on the educational, legal, and social construction of race and racism, and on educational practices related to deculturalization, segregation, and the civil rights movement...read more

An account of the religious life of antebellum slaves traces origins, conversions, popular forms and practices, and the unique melding of Christianity, the realities of slavery, and the African heritage (view table of contents)

This probing work examines how African-American slaves, through their appropriation of Christianity, found a resource that affirmed their sense of self-worth and identity, and a spirit of community that offered psychological and spiritual resistance to oppression. White evangelists extolled the benefits of converting slaves to Christianity, but the slaves discovered in the Bible a different message, shared among themselves in "dark symbols and obscure signs".

Product Description: This volume examines the interactions between white missionaries and slaves in the 1840s and 1850s, and the ways in which blacks used the missions to nurture the formation of the organized black church. The author uses church records, slave narratives, and autobiographies in her research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.

Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision