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ABSTRACT
The contributions of theologians like James Hal Cone and Katie Geneva Canon to the broader theological project of Black liberational theology allows for a rich discourse on what it means to be Black in the world, In doing this, memories of trauma must be engaged head on in ways that they become anamnetic moments for reimagining a new way of being human that is inclusive of all persons, Consequently, this work argues for the reimagination of the Black Church and its theologies that speak to Black experiences in ways that do not reinstate the hegemonic power of Whiteness as a mode of being in the world. Furthermore, the content and hermeneutic spaces shaping Black theology is critiqued with the intent to create a healthy space for the experiences of Black members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Notes
1 Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day, 40.
2 Armah, “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.”
3 See Reader, Africa: A Biography of The Continent, 614.
4 Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation, 88.
5 Mignolo and Walsh, On Decoloniality, 195.
6 Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized, 91.
7 Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation, 78–80.
8 Ibid., 79.
9 Ibid., 81.
10 Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized, 85.
11 Ibid., 85–6
12 For a detailed treatment of this phrase, see Metz, Faith in History and Society.
13 Cannon, Katie’s Canon, 52–3.
14 Canon, “Racism and Economics,” 5.
15 Ibid.
16 Cannon, Katie’s Canon, 56.
17 Ibid., 60.
18 Ibid., 61.
19 Ibid., 68.
20 Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 109–10.
21 Canon, Black Womanist Ethics, 87.
22 Ibid., 89.
23 Kudler, “Confronting Race and Racism,” 37.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid., 46.
26 Ibid., 61.
27 Ibid., 62–3.
28 See Harris, “Homosexuality and the Black Church,” 262.
29 Harris, “Homosexuality and the Black Church,” 263.
30 Ibid., 266. See also Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church; West, “The Black Church Beyond Homophobia,” 13–20. Mitchell, Righteous Propagation. Gaines, Uplifting the Race, 45.
31 Canon, Black Womanist Ethics, 90.
32 Douglas, Sexuality and The Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, 91.
33 Darden, Scripturalizing Revelation. See a detailed treatment of this topic in, Wimbush, “The Bible and African Americans,” 81–97.
34 Wimbush, “The Bible and African Americans,” 83.
35 Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation, 120; Canon, Black Womanist ethics, 90.
36 Bulewayo, We Need New Names.
37 Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, 121.
38 See Williams, “Rev. Katie Geneva Cannon.”.
39 See Steinem and Mankiller, “Womanism.”
40 See Floyd-Thomas, ed., Deeper Shades of Purple.
41 Cheng, An Introduction to QUEER Theology, 6
42 See D’Souza, “Ignoble Savages,”59–60.
43 Ibid.
44 Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling, 31.
45 Butler, Gender Trouble, 13–14.
46 Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, 82.
47 Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom, 7.
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SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai
SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai is currently an assistant professor of systematic theology at the University of Portland. He is the author of Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies: Hospitality and Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).