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This book explores lament in African American history from a theological perspective. Part One examines examples of African Americans' use of lament as a framework for engaging both historical memory and social action. Part Two offers examples of lament as a pedagogical tool in classrooms and other educational settings.
List of contents
Foreword, Jemar Tisby
Introduction, Timothy Fritz
Part I: Lament and Historical Practice
Chapter One: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Black Lament in the Stories Untold, Alicia K. Jackson
Chapter Two: Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Speech, Lament, and Historical Memory, Trisha Posey
Chapter Three: The Planet and the Pageant: John Mitchell Jr.'s Lament and W. B. Cridlin's Celebration in Richmond, Virginia, May 1922, Peter Slade
Chapter Four: "I'm tired of funerals. I'm tired of it! We've got to stand up!": Collective Lament, Collective Anger and Collective Action in the Civil Rights Struggle, Ansley Quiros
Chapter Five: "A Tribute in Tears and a Thrust for Freedom": Medgar Evers and the Politics of Lament, Patrick Connelly
Part II: Lament and Historical Pedagogy
Chapter Six: The Psalms and the Historical Pedagogy of Lament, Timothy Fritz
Chapter Seven: Teaching History in Mississippi: Lament as Pedagogy in an Era of Suffering, 2008-2022, Otis W. Pickett
Chapter Eight: A Pedagogy of Healing, Karen Johnson
Chapter Nine: A Mourning March: Learning Lament in the Classroom of the City, Gregory R. Perry
About the Contributors
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Edited by Timothy Fritz and Trisha Posey - Foreword by Jemar Tisby - Contributions by Patrick L. Connelly; Timothy Fritz; Alicia K. Jackson; Karen Johnson; Gregory Perry; Otis W. Pickett Sr.; Trisha Posey; Ansley Quiros and Peter Slade
Summary
This book explores lament in African American history from a theological perspective. Part One examines examples of African Americans’ use of lament as a framework for engaging both historical memory and social action. Part Two offers examples of lament as a pedagogical tool in classrooms and other educational settings.
