Article: A Black Theology of Liberation or Legitimation?: A Postcolonial Response to Cone's Black Theology and Black Power at Forty

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Article: A Black Theology of Liberation or Legitimation?: A Postcolonial Response to Cone's Black Theology and Black Power at Forty

On liberationist "black ... middle class theology": Elonda Clay (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago), "A Black Theology of Liberation or Legitimation?: A Postcolonial Response to Cone's Black Theology and Black Power at Forty" ("Black Theology: An International Journal", 8 [3], 2010: pp. 307-26).

Quote: "The signifier 'liberation' has become decontextualized (politically, economically, and culturally) in the second and third iterations of U.S. black liberation theology, causing the discourse to become perpetually oriented towards past, not present or future alternative dreams of social transformation and sites of struggle informed by the black Christian radical tradition."

Clay