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ATM Machine

ATM Machine. Deposits and Withdrawals. Field Work and Research. Interviews of Youth Pastors, Ministers, students, Professors, whites, minorities, and school employees Reinforced by Scholastic Readings

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ATM Machine

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  1. ATM Machine Deposits and Withdrawals

  2. Field Work and Research Interviews of Youth Pastors, Ministers, students, Professors, whites, minorities, and school employees Reinforced by Scholastic Readings Experiences of Various Environments including: churches, universities, and communities (In the United States and Hong Kong)

  3. The Big Concepts • Identity • Christianity/Religion • Whiteness • Minority • Community

  4. Who Defines Whom? • Minorities defined by/through reference, contrast, comparison to the majority • U.S. majority is white Christians, what does this mean? • Levels of interaction as individuals, communities, and as a nation

  5. The Effect of Christianity on Identity Formation • Segregation in Churches/Church groups • Religious and cultural education in Churches/Church groups • Types of interactions between white and minority churches • Moral and value creation

  6. So much more fun than Professor Hamada’s Class!

  7. The Influence of Christianity on Minority Religions

  8. Important Concepts: • The Definition of Religion? • What is Christianity? • The Religious “Minority”

  9. Influence of Religion on American Society • Christian Conservatism • Moral Values and Traditions • Practice of “Other” Religions • A Loss of Faith

  10. Interview Findings • “We are all minorities” • Distancing oneself from the “other” • Inflexible Traditions and an Unwillingness to Adapt • More appealing alternatives to Christianity

  11. **Boy, I’m sure glad I have an airbag!**

  12. Christianity, African Americans and ethnic identity • Christianity has profound influence on African Americans’ ethnic identity • Interviews • Institutional level • Contextual level

  13. Christianity, African Americans and ethnic identity (institutional level) Church (institution) Different system between black churches and white churches Closer bond within the same ethnic group members in the Black church Black cultural identity

  14. Christianity, African Americans and ethnic identity (contextual level) Christianity (context) Exodus (slaves in Egypt vs. slaves in US) Moses vs. Martin Luther King Jr. Political awareness & Civil Rights movement Black cultural identity

  15. That was the scariest five minutes of my life! **Man, that was SOO much FUN!**

  16. The Politics of Representation • Impersonal nature of American Society • Media and Entertainment reinforcing the status quo • “Truth on Film” • Blacks illustrated as inferior to whites • Consequences – black identity reliant on white perspective

  17. American Ideals vs. Limitations of actual Institutions • Majority/ Dominant Discourses • Narratives that reconcile racial inequality with belief in justice and equality • Traditional Storytelling – Good vs. Bad

  18. Stereotypes in Film and Media • Subservient- Mammies, Toms, and Coons

  19. Stereotypes in Film and Media Continued • Oversexed/ De-sexed • Violent • Incomplete

  20. Pancakes for Dinner! Who Does that? Who AM I?

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