Black Theology emerged in the 1960s as a response to black consciousness. In South Africa, it is a critique of power; in the UK, it is a political theology of black culture. The dominant form of Black Theology has been in the USA, originally influenced by Black Power and the critique of white racism. Since then it claims to have broadened its perspective to include oppression on the grounds of race, gender and class. In this book, Alistair Kee contests this claim, especially by Womanist (black women) Theology. Black and Womanist Theologies present inadequate analyses of race and gender and no account at all of class (economic) oppression. With a few notable exceptions, Black Theology in the USA repeats the mantras of the 1970s, the discourse of modernity. Content with American capitalism, it fails to address the source of the impoverishment of black Americans at home. Content with a romantic imaginary of Africa, this 'African-American' movement fails to defend contemporary Africa against predatory American global ambitions.
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unsubstitutable relevance, active radicalism, ontological blackness, black theology, womanist theology, black theologians, womanist theologians, term womanist, white theology, womanist theory, black liberation theology, womanist perspective, race analysis, black religion, poor black women, black consciousness, little theology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, New York, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Robert Beckford, Nation of Islam, Albert Cleage, James Cone, Black British, Black Christian Nationalism, American Black, Steve Biko, Deotis Roberts, Elijah Muhammad, West Indian, Allan Boesak, Audre Lorde, Delores Williams, Franz Fanon, Penguin Books, Stokely Carmichael, West Indies, Latin America, West Africa New!
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- The Black Messiah by Albert G. Cleage on 11 pages
- Collected Works V.38 Marx and Engels by Karl Marx on 7 pages
- Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael on 7 pages
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on 6 pages
- A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society) by James H. Cone on 5 pages
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