African American Theology: An Introduction (Online) by Frederick L. Ware Presents a substantial introduction to the major methodologies, figures, and themes within African American theology.

Introducing Black Theology of Liberation by Dwight N. Hopkins Situates black theology in the context of the African American church and in opposition to white-dominated theologies.

We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology (Online) by James H. Evans; Stephen G. Ray Edited and introduced by Stephen G. Ray Jr., the second edition, published on the twentieth anniversary of the first, includes three new essays that identify the value of the book for womanist, evangelical, and black church audiences.

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology by Cornel West (Editor); Eddie S. Glaude (Editor)

The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology by Dwight N. Hopkins (Editor); Edward P. Antonio (Editor) Discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented.

Methodologies of Black Theology by Frederick L. Ware A genealogical account of the emergence of academic black theology, stressing the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to the discipline. Against assumptions of a monolithic black theology, Ware divides the discipline into the following schools of thought: hermeneutical, philosophical and human sciences. Each school represents a range of thinkers, along with distinct “tasks,” “content,” “sources,” “methods,” “norms” and “goals.”

The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology (Online) by Katie G. Cannon (Editor); Anthony B. Pinn (Editor) A comprehensive analysis of the African American theological tradition in its many forms and contexts. Presents current scholarship on African American Theology and scripture, eschatology, Christology, womanist theology, sexuality, ontology, the global economy, and much more.

Shoes That Fit Our Feet: Sources for a Constructive Black Theology by Dwight N. Hopkins A second-generation black theologian’s response to the ongoing debate about sources for black theology. The book is divided into two parts. The first, “Folk Religion” deals with slave narratives, black women’s spirituality, and folk tales as sources for black theology. Part Two considers the thought of “Religious Leaders,” namely W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, as sources for constructive theological reflection.