{"product_id":"setting-down-the-sacred-past-laurie-f-maffly-kipp-9780674050792","title":"Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs early as the 1780s, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light an extraordinary trove of sweeping race histories that African Americans wove together out of racial and religious concerns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAsserting a role in God's plan, black Protestants sought to root their people in both sacred and secular time. A remarkable array of chroniclers--men and women, clergy, journalists, shoemakers, teachers, southerners and northerners--shared a belief that narrating a usable past offered hope, pride, and the promise of a better future. Combining Christian faith, American patriotism, and racial lineage to create a coherent sense of community, they linked past to present, Africa to America, and the Bible to classical literature. From collected shards of memory and emerging intellectual tools, African Americans fashioned stories that helped to restore meaning and purpose to their lives in the face of relentless oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a pioneering work of research and discovery, Maffly-Kipp shows how blacks overcame the accusation that they had no history worth remembering. African American communal histories imagined a rich collective past in order to establish the claim to a rightful and respected place in the American present. Through the transformative power of storytelling, these men and women led their people--and indeed, all Americans--into a more profound understanding of their interconnectedness and their prospects for a common future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674050797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674050792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2010 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2010 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/07\/2010 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/2010 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010 pg. 66","brand":"Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790050914559,"sku":"9780674050792","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67e781f9-567d-44a4-96c2-22f281f1132f.jpg?v=1707287814","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/setting-down-the-sacred-past-laurie-f-maffly-kipp-9780674050792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}