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Association: Name: Association for the Study of African American Life and History URL: http://www.asalh.org
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Jenkins, Toby. "Calling Culture: Changing Paradigms of the Presence, Importance, and Definitions of African American Culture and Cultural Efficacy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC, Oct 03, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-03-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p206549_index.html>

Jenkins, T. S. , 2007-10-03 "Calling Culture: Changing Paradigms of the Presence, Importance, and Definitions of African American Culture and Cultural Efficacy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC <Not Available>. 2010-03-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p206549_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: This session shares the results of a qualitative study that examined how African American college age students describe their culture and why culture might be important to them. Grounded in the narrative tradition of storytelling, this study synthesizes themes from interviews and personal stories in the form of cultural self portraits. These self portraits are personal narratives of culture focused on cultural ideologies, histories, and experiences that influence the contemporary perception of culture among young African American adults. These contemporary ideas are then compared against a historical examination of African American culture beginning with enslavement in America to shed light on how culture has or has not been inherited, passed on, and kept alive in a contemporary world. Can our young people articulate their culture? Do they value it? Has race completely replaced culture? This sense of ongoing and growing cultural efficacy can be understood by considering iculture to be a flame ignited years ago in indigenous lands by our ancestors. Our acts of cultural engagement serve as elements to keep the flame going and growing [wood, charcoal, bark in the form of ritual, story, tradition]. And the fire—the culture itself—is the source that warms the chilliest of climates and energizes generations of people of color to live, survive, and thrive. The viability for cultural education programs to contribute to the needed growth in cultural efficacy among African American students offers cultural practitioners an important opportunity to gain more information and establish more intentional cultural practice.

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