Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- African American women (1)
- African Belief Systems (1)
- American history (1)
- Bridge leader (1)
- Citizen leader (1)
-
- Citizenship (1)
- Civil rights movement (1)
- Class (1)
- Divinity (1)
- Ethnography (1)
- Ifa (1)
- Leadership Studies (1)
- Leadership and Change (1)
- Lucumi (1)
- Methodology (1)
- Narrative analysis (1)
- Narrative inquiry (1)
- Orisa (1)
- Orisha (1)
- Orisha Vodo (1)
- Political development (1)
- Poll tax (1)
- Qualitative (1)
- Race (1)
- Regala de Ocha (1)
- Religion (1)
- Santeria (1)
- Social sciences (1)
- Spirituality (1)
- Traditional Yoruba Belief System (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Developing And Sustaining Political Citizenship For Poor And Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story, Kenneth Cooper Alexander
Developing And Sustaining Political Citizenship For Poor And Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story, Kenneth Cooper Alexander
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This study tells the deep, rich story of Evelyn T. Butts, a grassroots civil rights champion in Norfolk, Virginia, whose bridge leadership style can teach and inspire new generations about political, community, and social change. Butts used neighbor-to-neighbor skills to keep her community connected with the national civil rights movement, which had heavily relied on grassroots leaders—especially women—for much of its success in overthrowing America’s Jim Crow system of segregation and suppression. She is best-known for her 1963 lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1966 decision to ban poll taxes for state and local elections, a democratizing event …
Spiritual Journeys: A Study Of Ifá /Òrìṣà Practitioners In The United States Initiated In Nigeria, Tony Van Der Meer
Spiritual Journeys: A Study Of Ifá /Òrìṣà Practitioners In The United States Initiated In Nigeria, Tony Van Der Meer
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
The purpose of this study is to understand the culture of one of the newest branches of traditional Yorùbá Ifá/Òrìṣà practice in the United States from practitioners born in the United States that were initiated in Nigeria, West Africa.The epistemology of the Ifá/Òrìṣà belief system in the United States has been based on the history and influence of Regla de Ocha or Santeria that developed out of Cuban innovation and practice.This is an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic study that pulls from participant observation, field notes, interviews, and photos as data.The central question of this dissertation is what are the challenges and …