The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such descriptions. Contributions engage work from various fields, including ethnic studies, religious studies, theology, queer theory, phil…
Introduction -- Body, race, and being -- Making a body Black : inventing race -- Skin as horizon : theorizing race and racism -- Seeing body -- Being Black -- Black body theology -- Enfleshing freedom -- Objectifing the body -- Black women's bodies as objects of property -- Blac…