Constructing and Circulating Black Madonnas as Black Power: Charting the Aesthetic and Cultural Influence of Shrine of the Black Madonna, #1
From his pulpit, Albert B. Cleage Jr. weighed in on a controversy, boldly asserting, “Jesus was a Black Messiah born to a black woman. The pictures of the Black Madonna which are all over the world did not all turn black through some mysterious accident.” This statement exemplifies the aesthetic per...
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Columbia University Libraries
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Black Theology Papers Project |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/btpp/article/view/3853 |