God Don't Like Ugly

Countering dire pronouncements of the irrelevance of African American institutions Teresa L. Fry Brown celebrates the way African American women continue often invisibly the task of passing on moral wisdom in African-American families churches and communities. The book begins with the authors analysis of intergenerational transmission of spiritual values as depicted in selected African American womens literature written since 1960 (gospel music poems novels short stories and autobiography). An interpretive framework is grounded in three ethical presuppositions based on traditional African American spiritual values African American Theology and Ethics Womanist Christology and Ethics and values culled from the authors own experience and religious beliefs.