Beyond Ontological Blackness

Victor Anderson is Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA. He is also Professor and Director of the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies in Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction1. The Religious Functions of Cultural CriticismExplicating Cultural CriticismReligious Aspects of Cultural CriticismReligious Criticism in a Racialized Culture2. Categorical Racism and Racial ApologeticsAesthetics and White Racial IdeologyRacial ApologeticsBeyond Categorical Racism and Racial Apologetics3. Ontological Blackness in TheologyThe Black Theology ProjectThe Challenge of Womanist Theology4. Explicating and Displacing Ontological Blackness: The Heroic Grotesque in African American Cultural and Religious CriticismExplicating the Heroic and Grotesque GeniusNew Literary Critiques of African American Expressive CultureThe Grotesque of African American Public LifeEpilogueFurther ReadingWorks CitedIndex