Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child

Introduction: Why a White Christ Continues to be Racist: The Legacy of Albert B. Cleage, Jr.; Jawanza Eric Clark

Part I: Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s Theology and Politics
1. The Theological Journey of Albert B. Cleage Jr.: Reflections from Jaramogi's Protégé and Successor; D. Kimathi Nelson 2. Nothing is More Sacred than the Liberation of Black People: Albert Cleage's Method as Unfulfilled Theological Paradigm Shift; Jawanza Eric Clark 3. "We Needed Both of Them": The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage, Jr's Radical Interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in Scholarship and Black Protest Thought"; Stephen Finley 4. The Black Messiah and Black Suffering; Torin Dru Alexander 5. Politics is Sacred: The Social Activism of Albert B. Cleage Jr.; Aswad Walker

Part II: Representations of the Black Madonna and Child, Christian Education, and Pastoral Care
6. The Black Madonna and the Role of Women; Velma Maia Thomas 7. Black Power and Black Madonnas: Charting the Aesthetic and Cultural Influence of Albert B. Cleage, Jr. and the Shrine of the Black Madonna, 1; Melanee Harvey 8. The Power of a Black Christology: Africana Pastoral Theology Reflects on Black Divinity; Lee Butler 9. Image is Everything? The Significance of the Imago Dei in the Development of African-American Youth; Almeda Wright. 10. A Crucified Black Christ, a Dead Black Love; Basean Jackson

Part III: The Legacy of the Black Messiah in the African Diaspora
11. The Crucified City: Detroit as a Black Christ Figure; Kamasi Hill 12. Savior King: Re-reading the Gospels as Greco-Africana Literature & Re-Imaging Christ as African Sacrificial King; Salim Faraji. 13. He is Black and We are Queer: The Legacy of the Black Messiah for Black LGBTQ Christians; Pamela Lightsey 14. The "Black Messiah" and African Christologies: Pan-African Symbols of Liberation; Josiah E. Young 15. The Quest for a Radical Black Jesus: An Antidote to Imperial Mission Christianity; Anthony Reddie.

Jawanza Eric Clark is Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA. His first book, Indigenous Black Theology, is a work of comparative and constructive theology that incorporates the indigenous African notion of ancestor in the development of a new Black theology for the church.