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Randal Maurice Jelks (University of Kansas, USA)

Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans

Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali

Randal Maurice Jelks (University of Kansas, USA)

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English
Bloomsbury Academic
10 January 2019
Religious life & practice; Black & Asian studies
In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: “I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want to be.”

This sentiment, the brash assertion of individual freedom, informs and empowers each of the four personalities profiled in this book. Randal Maurice Jelks shows that to understand the Black American experience beyond the larger narratives of enslavement, emancipation, and Black Lives Matter, we need to hear the individual stories. Drawing on his own experiences growing up as a religious African American, he shows that the inner history of Black Americans in the 20th century is a story worthy of telling.

This book explores the faith stories of four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali. It examines their autobiographical writings, interviews, speeches, letters, and memorable performances to understand how each of these figures used religious faith publicly to reconcile deep personal struggles, voice their concerns for human dignity, and reinvent their public image. For them, liberation was not simply defined by material or legal wellbeing, but by a spiritual search for community and personal wholeness.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   295g
ISBN:   9781350074620
ISBN 10:   1350074624
Pages:   208
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
"Acknowledgements Introduction. “We Have Been Believers”: Towards an Inner History of African Americans 1. I Sing Because I am Free: Ethel Waters 2. ""Jazz is her Religion"": Mary Lou Williams 3. ""I am Free to be What I Want to Be"": Muhammad Ali 4. A Religious Conversion, More or Less: Eldridge Cleaver Conclusion: We Have Been Believers in a New Jerusalem Notes Select Bibliography Index"

Randal Maurice Jelks is Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas, USA. His previous books are both award-winning: African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids (2006) and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography (2012).

Reviews for Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali

[Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans] offers a fascinating look into the religious lives of four individuals, and Jelks also weaves his own religious narrative in and out of the stories he tells. * Anxious Bench *


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