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The Havens Center is housed in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Events


Sep 18	Julie Guthman	Confronting the Sacred Cows of Food Politics
Sep 18	Uriel Leviatan	The Transformation of the Kibbutzim: Lessons for the Sustainability of Utopian Communities
Sep 18	Dorian T. Warren	Race, Labor and the New Economy: Political Responses to Inequality in the 21st Century
Sep 18	Marta Soler	Overcoming Social Inequality

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My Mother's God is Mine: Women's Voices and the Creation of the African American Sacred

Cheryl Gilkes

African American Studies and Sociology, Colby College

" My Mother's Song Is Mine: Sacred Musics as Discourses of Psychic Survival"

October 18, 2004, 12:00PM, 6310 Social Sciencess

"A Case Study in Cultural Narrative and Critique: The Music of Shirley Caesar"

October 19, 2004, 12:00PM, 6104 Social Science

Seminar for Students and Faculty

October 20, 2004, 12:05PM, 8108 Social Science

Cheryl Gilkes is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and Director of the African American Studies Program at Colby College. Professor Gilkes’ research interests include African American religious history, race and ethnicity, African-American women, the sociology of religion, and W.E.B Du Bois. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community (2000). Professor Gilkes is also an ordained Baptist minister and serves as an Assistant Pastor (for Special Projects) of the Union Baptist Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

W.E.B. Du Bois. 1903. "Of the Faith of the Fathers"

W.E.B. Du Bois. 1903. "Of the Sorrow Songs"

Ann Swidler. 1986. Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies. American Sociological Review. 51 (April):273-286.

Deborah Gray White. 1985. "The Female Slave Network." Pp. 119-141 in Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: W.W. Norton and Company).