Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism

by Victor Anderson

Book Overview

In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Drawing together 18th- and 19th-century accomodationism and its assimilationist heirs with the movements of Black Power and Afrocentrism, Anderson shows that all exhibit a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474287662
• ISBN13: 9781474287661
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"