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>> 185 Index Africa, 62–64 African/Africanness: and the Bible, 76–77; and blackness, 79, 94–96; and God, 73; identity politics and, 60–62 African Diaspora, defined, 85 African Hebrew Israelites, 36 Afrocentric: consciousness, 45–46; dress, 50–53; hairstyles, 53–56; naming practices, 56–62, theology, 91 Afrocentrism, 10–13; defined, 25; and black middle class, 119–121, 123–124, 170–173; and Christianity, 74; history of, 25–27; and relationship to blackness, 8; tenets of, 27–29 Ancestral memory, 91–93, 141 Becoming Indian, 65–69 Biblical blackness, 89–91, 94 Black culture, 82–85 Black feminism, defined, 143–144 Black Liberation Theology, tenets of, 75–77, 89 Black Nationalism: defined, 126–127; First Afrikan Presbyterian attitudes toward, 131–135 Blackness: defined, 9; and Africanness, 79; of biblical characters, 89–91; characteristics and experiences of, 5–9; and collective identity, 85–87; cross-cultural constructions of, 77–87; degrees of, 101–107, 176–177; First Afrikan Presbyterian constructions of, 87; and First African Presbyterian , defined by, 96–100 Blue Chip Black, 118–119 Bush, George W., 129 Communitas: defined, 18; and blackness , 19–20; at First Afrikan Presbyterian ,172–173, 175 Double consciousness: defined, 7; and black theology, 75; defined in Souls of Black Folk, 125; 174–175; and middle class status, 21 Dreaming Blackness, 136 Essentialism: defined, 8, 19, 100; and blackness , 10, 172–173, 175–177; and heterogeneity , 9; and identity, 66, 97 Eurocentrism: defined, 10–11, 172–173 Feminism: defined, 143; perspectives of First Afrikan Presbyterian members, 157–160 First Afrikan Presbyterian Church: constructions of blackness, 87; definitions of blackness , 96–100; defining characteristics of, 7; history of, 29–31; middle class status of members, 112; perspectives on feminism, 157–160; perspectives on womanism, 158–160 Gender complementarity, 160–165 Gender Talk, 153; 168 Ideology, 16–17 Kiswahili, defined, 74 Maafa, defined, 74 McKinney, Cynthia, and Condoleeza Rice, 104–107 Middle class status: and Afrocentrism, 119–121; black, characteristics of, 112–113; black middle class, social science theories of, 117–119; black, relationship to Afrocentrism , 123–124, 174–175; and First Afrikan Presbyterian members, 112 186 << index Obama, Barack, black identity of, 6–7; 175 Pan-Africanism, defined, 86 Race: defined, 78; and ethnicity, 84 Racial identity, defined, 78 Revitalization movement, defined, 17 Rice, Condoleeza, and Cynthia McKinney, 104–107 Ritual, 17–18 Shrine of the Black Madonna, 35 Tribal Talk, 147 Womanism: defined, 144–146; Africana womanism, 145, 148; and Afrocentrism, 160–161; and black empowerment movements , 152–155; and First Afrikan Presbyterian members, perspectives among, 151, 158–160 Womanist theology, 22; defined, 146, 148; perspectives among First Afrikan Presbyterian members, 150 Wright, Jeremiah, 37–39 ...