Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls: A New Theory of African American Identity Formation

In Lee Butler's own words, "This book is an attempt to answer the question, 'Who are we as African Americans?'" Attempting to answer this question is one way we participate in the works of salvation. Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls is a study of African American identity aimed at pointing a way out of a current crisis into a new liberation and salvation. Butler combines insights and methodologies from developmental psychology, liberation theology, and African American history to plot a new course for contemporary African Americans to gain a sense of identity that will guide them away from the identity the European and American cultures have traditionally forced upon them. This involves determining identity by personal worth; not by occupation, economic class, or social class.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Butler, Lee H.
Published: 04/01/2006
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 9780827221369
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d