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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Jendli, Adel. "Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town," American Studies Program, University of Kansas, May 1995.
This study examines the spiritual, cultural, economic, and political roles of local African-American churches and ministers in their communities, with specific focus on the small mid-western town of Lawrence, Kansas. Local black ministers played important priestly or spiritual leadership roles in their churches. Local black ministers also had prophetic leadership roles in the community, reflecting the concerns of the black community in their sermons and assisting in improving the black community. The social and political impact of black churches and ministers in the community, however, was still modest. Nonetheless, the absence of other black institutions that might represent the local black community thrust the black churches to the forefront as the only institutions to which some local black people still looked for leadership.
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