Arnold Farr is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He previously founded and directed the Africana Studies Program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and helped reshape the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky where he was also the 2010 MLK. Jr Scholar in Residence. Farr is founder and former president of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, and is the author of two books: Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies and Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. He served for several years as a Tri-Chair for the Kentucky Poor People's Campaign. He was born and raised in Union, South Carolina, and is the grandson of sharecroppers.

• Introduction: There is a Spirit in the Room1. The Whiteness of Theology and Philosophy2. The Context of Black Liberation Theology3. Black Theology and Black Power4. A Black Theology of Liberation5. God of the Oppressed and the Blackness of God6. The Expansion and Development of Black Liberation Theology7. Martin and Malcolm: The Dialectic of Black Liberation8. The Cross and the Lynching Tree9. The Black Situation Today, Black Power, Narrative Control, and Revolution10. What is Critical Political Theology?11. Revolutionary Theology and Black Prophetic Fire: James Cone and Cornel West in Conversation

'A truly groundbreaking work! In combining the work of James Cone, his training in Western philosophy, and his personal experience of tragedy and triumph in the diasporic quest for full human recognition, Farr provides in this volume a much-needed, ‘black philosophy of liberation.’ For those especially interested in how the liberation motif extends beyond Christian commitment to divine promise in a context of racial oppression, this book will be a treasure to read!'

Arnold Farr is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He previously founded and directed the Africana Studies Program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and helped reshape the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky where he was also the 2010 MLK. Jr Scholar in Residence. Farr is founder and former president of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, and is the author of two books: Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies and Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. He served for several years as a Tri-Chair for the Kentucky Poor People's Campaign. He was born and raised in Union, South Carolina, and is the grandson of sharecroppers.

• Introduction: There is a Spirit in the Room1. The Whiteness of Theology and Philosophy2. The Context of Black Liberation Theology3. Black Theology and Black Power4. A Black Theology of Liberation5. God of the Oppressed and the Blackness of God6. The Expansion and Development of Black Liberation Theology7. Martin and Malcolm: The Dialectic of Black Liberation8. The Cross and the Lynching Tree9. The Black Situation Today, Black Power, Narrative Control, and Revolution10. What is Critical Political Theology?11. Revolutionary Theology and Black Prophetic Fire: James Cone and Cornel West in Conversation

'A truly groundbreaking work! In combining the work of James Cone, his training in Western philosophy, and his personal experience of tragedy and triumph in the diasporic quest for full human recognition, Farr provides in this volume a much-needed, ‘black philosophy of liberation.’ For those especially interested in how the liberation motif extends beyond Christian commitment to divine promise in a context of racial oppression, this book will be a treasure to read!'

Arnold Farr is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He previously founded and directed the Africana Studies Program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and helped reshape the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky where he was also the 2010 MLK. Jr Scholar in Residence. Farr is founder and former president of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, and is the author of two books: Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies and Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. He served for several years as a Tri-Chair for the Kentucky Poor People's Campaign. He was born and raised in Union, South Carolina, and is the grandson of sharecroppers.

• Introduction: There is a Spirit in the Room1. The Whiteness of Theology and Philosophy2. The Context of Black Liberation Theology3. Black Theology and Black Power4. A Black Theology of Liberation5. God of the Oppressed and the Blackness of God6. The Expansion and Development of Black Liberation Theology7. Martin and Malcolm: The Dialectic of Black Liberation8. The Cross and the Lynching Tree9. The Black Situation Today, Black Power, Narrative Control, and Revolution10. What is Critical Political Theology?11. Revolutionary Theology and Black Prophetic Fire: James Cone and Cornel West in Conversation

'A truly groundbreaking work! In combining the work of James Cone, his training in Western philosophy, and his personal experience of tragedy and triumph in the diasporic quest for full human recognition, Farr provides in this volume a much-needed, ‘black philosophy of liberation.’ For those especially interested in how the liberation motif extends beyond Christian commitment to divine promise in a context of racial oppression, this book will be a treasure to read!'