Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. West, Cornel

Description

1. viii, 52 pages; 18 cm

Summary

1. "Urbansouls foreshadows the events in Ferguson by offering keen insight on the social and cultural situation of the greater St. Louis region. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, who wrote the first edition of urbansouls while serving as a youth pastor and community center director, theorizes on race, class and gender. He reads the religious sensibilities of Hip-Hop as a meaning-making activity for those who have been alienated from society's traditional institutions such as the church. Theologians, public policy makers, youth workers, and social service providers are those who will learn much from this eyewitness account of the conditions that urban youth struggle with on a day-to-day basis, long before the killing of Michael Brown."--Page 4 of cover.

Alternative title

1. Urban souls

Subject

1. African Americans > Social conditions
2. African American youth > Social conditions
3. Black author

Contents

1. Spiritual not religious: hip-hop and the making of faith -- To be young, gifted, and broke -- Songs of the city -- Hip-hop religion -- Prophets among them and they knew them not.

Call number

1. Sc C 19-165

Author

1. Sekou, Osagyefo Uhuru, author.

Title

1. Urbansouls : reflections on youth, religion and hip-hop culture / Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou ; foreword by Cornel West.

Publisher

1. St. Louis, Missouri : Chalice Press, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Edition

1. Revised edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. FOREWORD BY CORNELL WEST. UPDATES ON SOCIAL/CULTURAL SITUATION OF ST. LOUIS REGION AFTER FERGUSON.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. West, Cornel, writer of foreword.

ISBN

1. 9780827238619
2. 0827238614

Research call number

1. Sc C 19-165