Series I: Coursework and personal material, 1955 -- 2008
This series is open for research.
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This series contains coursework and other materials-- including report cards, awards, papers, exams, and notes-- from Cannon's years at Kannapolis (North Carolina) primary and high schools, Barber-Scotia College, Johnson C. Smith Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary. This series also contains biographical and personal material, including a CV, reunion materials and event programs, and doodles and other artwork created by Cannon.
This series is arranged in rough chronological order. Original folder titles kept where available.
Box 1 Folder 1
Kannapolis schools, circa 1955 -- 1967, 2002, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 2
Barber-Scotia College, circa 1967 -- 1996, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 3
Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), circa 1971 -- 1974, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 4
Biographical and personal materials, circa 1966 -- 2008, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 5
Doodles and badges, circa 1989 -- 2008, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 6
Rosetta Ross interview, 2005-10-26, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 7
ITC: Samuel's Role in the Establishment of the Hebrew Monarchy, 1971-10-21, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 8
ITC: The Book of Ruth Then and Now, 1971-12-02, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 9
ITC: An Interpretation of Black Theology and Black Power, 1972-04-26, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 10
ITC: Reinhold Neibuhr's Ethics: An Ethics for Black Liberation, 1972-04-27, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 11
ITC: A Nation Under God: The Theology of the Establishment of the Monarchy, 1972-12-14, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 12
ITC: Abelard, Peter, 1972-12-14, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 13
ITC: Book Review: Christianity and Power Politics, 1974-02-06, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 14
ITC: A Pilgrim' Progress [sic], 1974-02-18, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 15
ITC: Exams and coursework, circa 1971 -- 1974, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 16
UTS: An Exegetical Paper on Hosea 11:1-7, 1975-09-02, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 17
UTS: The Agony of Gethesemane, circa 1975 -- 1976, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 18
UTS: Matriculation Exam, 1978-07-31, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 19
UTS: King, M.L. Jr., 1979-01-05, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 20
UTS: Prospectus for Field Examinations in Christian Ethics Outline Field Examinations I-V, 1980-01-15, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 21
UTS: [Field] Examination [I], circa 1980, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 22
UTS: Field Examination II, 1980-12, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 23
UTS: Field Examination III, 1980-12, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 24
UTS: Field Examination IV, 1980-12, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 25
UTS: Field Examination VI, circa 1980, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 26
UTS: Field Examinations, circa 1980, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 27
UTS: Field Study Overview, 1974 -- 1982, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 28
UTS: Prospectus [Dissertation], 1981-02-02, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 29
UTS: Field Examination V, 1981-12-16, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 30
UTS: Resources for a Constructive Ethic for Black Women in the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston: A Dissertation Proposal, 1982-09, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 31
UTS: The Inclusion of Sermons in Black Women's Fiction, circa 1975 -- 1983, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 32
UTS: Academic Dossier, circa 1983 -- 1986, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 33
The Theophanic Invitation, 1974-12-05, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 34
The Distinctive Characterizations Between Professional and Non-Professional Prophets, 1974-12-13, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 35
A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirements of Systematic Theology, circa 1971 -- 1983, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 36
Position on Church and State, circa 1971 -- 1983, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 37
The United Nations and Peace, circa 1971 -- 1983, 1 folders
Series II: Teaching resources, 1983 -- 2016
This series contains some restricted material. Restrictions related to specific material are listed in the detailed contents list.
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This series contains syllabi and exams, student work samples, workshop descriptions and materials, correspondence, articles and readings, bibliographies, notes, and other teaching resources used and/or compiled by Cannon.
This series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. Original folder titles kept where available.
Box 1 Folder 38
Collected syllabi: Cannon, circa 1989 -- 2016, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 39-40
Collected syllabi: Cannon and others, circa 1983 -- 2016, 2 folders
Box 1 Folder 41
Course Projections 2018-2020, circa 2016, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 42
Lutheran Seminary, 1994, 1 folders
75 years from the date of creation (FERPA restricted student work only; other material in folder remains open).
Box 1 Folder 43
Mining the Motherlode: Academic Teaching of Religion to African American Students, 1999, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 44
Proposal for a Lilly Teaching Workshop, 1996 -- 1997, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 45
Resources for Constructive Ethics 1986-1987 EDS, 1984 -- 1985, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 46
Resources - Disapora Literacy Picture Book, 1989, 1 folders
75 years from the date of creation (FERPA restricted student work only; other material in folder remains open).
Box 1 Folder 47
Sample syllabus: Womanist Theology and Ethics, circa 2000 -- 2016, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 48
Sermonic Notes, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 49
Working Bibliography: Preaching in the Black Idiom, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 50
Teaching resources, circa 2000 -- 2016, 1 folders
Box 1 Folder 51
Temple University, 2000 -- 2001, 1 folders
Series III: Writings, 1975 -- 2018
This series is open for research.
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This series contains published and draft forms of articles, chapters, and other writings by Cannon, as well as notes and correspondence related to her writings.
This series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. Original folder titles kept where available.
Box 2 Folder 1
African American Pulpit, circa 1997 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 2
African Research Project Abstract, circa 1998 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 3
Afro-Brazilian Retentions: A Reservoir for Deepening Diasporic Knowledge, circa 2012 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 4
Afterthoughts for "Doing the Work Our Souls Must Have", circa 2010 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 5
Black Womanist Liberation Ethics, circa 1975 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 6
A Brief History [African American clergywomen in PC-USA], 1999-05-09, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 7
"Call and Consequences" by Raquel St. Clair review, circa 2007 -- 2008, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 8
Christian Imperialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 2008, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 9
Codes of Ethics in Freedom Narratives, circa 2010 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 10
Cross-Cultural Service as Source for Intellectual Bridge-Building, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 11
The Economic Impacts of Racism--According to Oliver C. Cox, circa 1983 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 12
Entering Creatively into the Life-transforming "Way of Wisdom": The Usefulness of the "Moving Step Exercises", 2003, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 13
Ethnic notions, circa 1975 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 14
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of a Black Liberation Ethic, circa 1987 -- 2000, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 15
Homecoming in the Hinterlands: Ethical Ministries of Mission in Nigeria, circa 2009 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 16
Interweaving of Economic Structures and Racism: Oliver C. Cox's Social Theory, circa 1983 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 17
Jots and Tittles: Dotting every i, crossing every t, circa 2000, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 18
King and Gender Justice, 2007 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 19
Lest We Forget: The Road to Reunion, 1985-06, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 20
The Man Farthest Down in Europe, circa 2010, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 21
Mapping Methodological Directions for Womanist Scholarship, circa 2016 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 22
Merging Mission, Memory, and Ministry, circa 2010 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 23
Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition, 1993, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 24
Must I be womanist?, circa 2006, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 25
Racial/Ethnic Woman in Ministry Conference: An Overview, circa 1979, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 26
Selected Comparison of Moral Agency in the Formal Theological-Ethical Writings of Black Christian Theology, circa 1983 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 27
Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority, circa 2004, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 28
Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation, circa 1986 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 29
Surviving the Blight, circa 1986 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 30
Teach A Woman, Teach A People: An Interfaith Trialogue, circa 1994 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 31
Teaching Africentric Ethics: "The Hinges Upon Which the Future Swings", circa 2003, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 32
A Theological Analysis of Imperialistic Christianity, circa 1986 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 33
There's a Bond Between Us: Barber-Scotia and My Family, 1975-11, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 34
Theoretical Working Draft: The Academy of Womanist Preaching, circa 1990 -- 1993, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 35
Thurman, Howard Conference, circa 1981 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 36
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Continuing Impact on Religion and Poverty in Ghana, 2003-07, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 37
Transformative Grace, 2006, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 38
Trouble in Paradise: Representing Bliss in Non-Orgiastic Language, circa 2009 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 39
Unctuousness as Virtue--According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston, circa 1983 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 40
Unearthing Ethical Treasures, circa 1998 -- 2000, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 41
"The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa" Foreword, circa 1990 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 42
A Womanist Interpretation of Sacred Rhetoric in African American Texts, circa 1989 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 43
Womanist Mentoring: African American Perspectives, 2017-08-29, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 44
Womanist Perspectival Discourse and Canon Formation, 1993, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 45
The Womanist Theology Primer, circa 2007 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 46
Writings: Miscellaneous Content, circa 1983 -- 2018, 1 folders
Series IV: Speaking engagements, circa 1970 -- 2018
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This series contains lectures, addresses, sermons, narrative text for bible studies, as well as correspondence and other materials related to speaking engagements. Materials are both typed and handwritten, often with slashes or other markers of speech rhythms, as well as notes and edits. Some folders contain multiple drafts or versions.
This series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. Original folder titles kept where available.
Box 2 Folder 47
Avoiding the Pitfalls in Life, 1976, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 48
The Beloved Community and Eco-Justice, 2010, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 49
Black Thought/Black Strategy: The Analysis of Racism as an Ethical Issue, 1983-12-03, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 50
Codes of Ethics in Slave Novels, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 51
Confidence in the Ableness of God, 2003 -- 2005, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 52
Conspiracy Against God, 2004-08-22, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 53
Cost of Discipleship, circa 1970 -- 1989, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 54
Courage for Such a Time as This, circa 1996, circa 2008, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 55
Daring to Speak the Unspeakable, 2002-02-06, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 56
Discipleship of Equals: Resisting Lop-Sided Missions, 1998, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 57
Embodied Mediated Wisdom: Black Women's Literature as Sacred Texts, circa 2008 -- 2009, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 58
Equipping People to Respect Race in the Work of Justice, circa 1980 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 59
Ethics and Literature, circa 1998 -- 2000, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 60
Everyday Matters of Life and Death, 1997 -- 1998, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 61
First United Presbyterian Church Bible Study, 2003 -- 2007, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 62
The Gift and Curse of Class in Alice Walker's Meridian, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 63
The Heartbreak of Living: Womanist Critique of Effective Evangelism, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 64
International Conference on Racism and Globalization: an ethical mapping of the transatlantic slave trade, circa 2008, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 65
Justice in Search of a People, circa 1995, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 66
Loading the Canon, circa 1996 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 67
No Center - No Outer Edge: Living with Intergrity in Situations of Oppression, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 68
Off the Menu, circa 2007, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 69
On Remembering Who We Are, 1993-08-01, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 70
Out of the Shadows of Death, circa 2000 -- 2004, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 71
The Patience to Wait, circa 1970 -- 1983, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 72
Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Classroom, circa 1983 -- 1995, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 73
Possibilities for Justice, 1999 -- 2000, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 74
The Power of Ontological Blackness in the Presbyterian Tradition, 2004-06-27, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 75
Preaching and Social Change, 2002, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 76
Prophetic Preaching: The Register of Ministerial Significance/The Key Category of Vocational Importance, circa 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 77
Prophets for a New Day, circa 1992 -- 1996, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 78
The Pulpit as a Mission Site - According to James H. Robinson, circa 1990, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 79
Remembering What We Never Knew, circa 1983 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 80
Remembering Who We Are From a Theological Perspective, 1994-07-20, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 81
Revolutionaries in Zion, 2012-10-11, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 82
The Road to Emmaus - Sermon, circa 1991, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 83
The Scholarly Vocation and the Common Good, 2002, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 84
Sermon as Genre: Black Preaching as Process in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston, circa 1991 -- 1993, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 85
Silencing the Voices from Within, circa 1980, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 86
The Social Dialect in Toni Morrison's Jazz, circa 1994 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 87
The Sound of Memory: Social Teachings in Black Sacred Rhetoric, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 88
The Sound of Memory: Understanding the Rhythm of Ethical Cadence, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 2 Folder 89
Speaking: Miscellaneous Content, circa 1983 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 1
The Spirit of God in the Book of Ezekiel - Sermon, 1982, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 2
Squaring the Ethical Circle: Zora Neale Hurston as a Doer of Justice, 2012, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 3
Talking About Race, circa 1998 -- 2005, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 4
A Taste of Paradise: Womanist Norms for Emancipatory Praxis, circa 2004, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 5
Thematic Exposition of the Sacred Rhetoric in BlackWomen's Texts, circa 1991 -- 1993, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 6
Theorizing the Personal: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ruby McCollum Trial, circa 1993 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 7
To Tell The Truth, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 8
Translating Womanism Into Pedagogical Practice, 1997, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 9
Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class, 2004, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 10
Unfolding Texts of Contextual Promise, 1994-07-18, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 11
Unshackling Ethical Truth: A Womanist Critique of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 12
Untethering Grace from Dogmatic Anchors: A Womanist Critique of the Transatlantic Slave trade, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 13
Voice Crying from the Ground, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 14
Walking Across the Rim Bones of Nothingness, 1990, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 15
Walking Humbly With Our God: Moral Linkages that Lie at the Heart of Womanist Homiletics, circa 2005, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 16
The Way of the Cross, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 17
What is Africa to me?, circa 2003 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 18
Where Ethics and Eschatology Meet: Zora Neale Hurston's Account of the Ruby McCollum Trial, circa 1993, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 19
The (W)hole of Wisdom: Black Women's Literature as Sacred Texts, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 20
To Whom Do We Belong, circa 1990, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 21
Womanism at Harvard 2017, 2017, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 22
Womanist Epistemological Sensibilities: Transforming Antiquated Modes of Religious Hierarchies in Light of Liberationist Pedagogical Ideals, 1993, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 23
Womanist Hermeneutics Lecture 2: Participating in the Unfolding Acts of Creation, circa 1997 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 24
Womanist TheoEthics, 2010, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 25
Womanist Theological Ethics: When Doing Nothing is Never Enough, 2008, 1 folders
Series V: Publicity and events, circa 1970 -- 2018
This series is open for research.
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This series contains announcements and flyers as well as correspondence related to Cannon's speaking engagements and other events, materials related to conferences Cannon attended, and magazines, clippings, and other publications compiled by Cannon, often including articles by or about her.
This series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. Original folder titles kept where available.
Box 3 Folder 26
Announcement Flyers KGC, circa 1970 -- 2018, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 27
BPU: Big Tent, circa 1998 -- 2014, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 28
Black Women in the Academy, 1994 -- 1999, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 29
Correspondence Form Letters, 1998 -- 2007, 1 folders
Box 3 Folder 30-33
Publications, circa 1970 -- 2018, 4 folders
Box 3 Folder 34
Women of Color, 1998 -- 1999, 1 folders