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Liberation and the Cosmos

Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
  • ISBN-13: 9781506488424
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Barbara A. Holmes
  • Price: AUD $63.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 19/05/2023
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Black & Asian studies [JFSL3]
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The rich legacy of black critical thought, creative expression, and religious reflection come together in these creatively imagined conversations between the elders about the shape and conditions of Black liberation. Barbara A. Holmes has defined key issues of freedom and identity, hypothesizing a meeting of the ancestors assembled "on the other side" to discuss them. Imagine a conversation between Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall on what freedom looks like in relation to law and politics. Or, between Tupac Shakur, Nina Simone, and James Baldwin on art, culture, and liberation. Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman discuss freedom and wholeness, while Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, and George Washington Carver talk about liberated bodies. These imagined dialogues open up rich reflection and insight and offer a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation down through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
Barbara A. Holmes is president emerita of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and formerly professor of ethics and African American religious studies and vice president of Academic Affairs at Memphis Theological Seminary. Her other Fortress books include is Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church Second Edition (2017), Dreaming (2012), Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently (2002), A Private Woman in Public Spaces (2000). Additionally, she recently wrote Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village (CAC Publishing Co, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2021).
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