Traci C West: 3 books

Book cover of Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence

by Traci C. West
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence...
Book cover of Wounds of the Spirit

Wounds of the Spirit

Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics

by Traci C. West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999

In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters...
Book cover of Creating Ourselves

Creating Ourselves

African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression

by Mayra Rivera, Traci C. West
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009

Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
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