The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Online) by Willie James JenningsTouching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, Jennings shows how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race.
Race: A Theological Account (Online) by J. Kameron CarterArgues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions. He critiques the work of such noted scholars as Albert Raboteau, Charles Long and James Cone, and argues that black theology must rebuild itself on completely new theological foundations.
Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology by Vincent W. LloydArgues that secularism is entangled with the disciplining impulses of modernity, with neoliberal economics, and with Western imperialism - but it also contaminates and castrates black theology. Inspired by critics of secularism in other fields, Religion of the Field Negro probes the subtle ways in which religion is excluded and managed in black culture.
Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (Online) by Brian BantumConstructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto--one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a "hybridity" of flesh and spirit, human and divine, calling humanity to a mulattic rebirth.