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This work provides a descriptive analysis of the so-called Black American community whose practical consciousness is a result of adopting, and reacting to, both white values and discriminatory terms to constitute their practical activities and so-called cultural identity. Outside of the practices associated with these values and discriminatory terms, there is no sui generis Black American identity and community with its own form of system and social integration that is different from, or diametrically opposes, the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of their white counterparts, which would emerge out of that relationship.

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Black Church, African-Americanization, racial identity, religiosity, Black Diaspora, spiritualism, phenomenological structuralism

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Paul C. Mocombe. (2025). There Is No Black American Identity and Community. Philosophy Study, Jan.-Feb. 2025, Vol. 15, No. 1, 35-41

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