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This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming African-Americanized. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community: the black underclass (Hip-Hop culture), speaking for and representing black youth practical consciousness; and black American charismatic liberal/conservative bourgeois Protestant preachers like TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, etc., speaking for and representing the black bourgeois (educated) professional and working classes. Although on the surface the practical consciousness and language of the two social class language games appear to diametrically oppose one another, the authors argue, given the two groups' material wealth within the Protestant et

The AfricanAmericanization of the Black Diaspora

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    A Paperback by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761867210, 978-0761867210
      ISBN10: 076186721X

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      Book Synopsis
      This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming African-Americanized. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community: the black underclass (Hip-Hop culture), speaking for and representing black youth practical consciousness; and black American charismatic liberal/conservative bourgeois Protestant preachers like TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, etc., speaking for and representing the black bourgeois (educated) professional and working classes. Although on the surface the practical consciousness and language of the two social class language games appear to diametrically oppose one another, the authors argue, given the two groups' material wealth within the Protestant et

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