I/we shall not be moved

I/weshall not be moved; African American spiritual*/Folk Song.   Black Spiritual Bernice Johnson Reagon reminds us that,‘The African American spiritual and its evolution within American society—like a great river shooting off hundreds of tributaries to be joined together somewhere further down the way—give us the richest opportunity to view the tradition in a way that unleashes the powerful human story it holds’ (Reagon, 1992, p. 13). ‘I shall not be moved’ is an example of this premise:  I shall not, I shall not be moved.I shall not, I shall not be moved,just like a tree that’s planted by the water,I shall not be moved.   Sociologist David Spener identifies ‘I shall not be moved’ as...