Document 1: The demonizalion of African spirituality in the church is antithetical to the history of Black Christianity
Within his treatise The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois described “double-consciousness” as the constant self-perception of the African and his community against the backdrop of white supremacy. DuBois argues that this gaze is damaging to the Black psyche, causing it to turn on itself as internalized Euro-American racism creates anxiety that eventually destroys Black confidence in African ways of knowing.
Black religious institutions and individual faith practices present themselves to be principally designed to combat double-consciousness. However, in the quad -centennial of African arrival to this new world, many of these Black Q. Christian institutions maintained internalized white theological concepts. From RaceBaitr. Ronald Allan’s “The demonization of African spirituality….Black Christianity.” 20 June 2019,