God Don't Like Ugly: African American Women Handing on Spiritual Values »

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 author's analysis of intergenerational transmission of spiritual values as depicted in selected African-American women's 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 author's own experience and religious beliefs.