The image is the March 1969 cover of EBONY magazine. The main story was titled “The Quest for a Black Christ.” For a short video reflection on the cover and the fallout, and the effects of “colour symbolism,” see:
Blum, Edward J. āāThere Wonāt Be Any Rich People in Heavenā: The Black Christ, White Hypocrisy, and the Gospel According to W. E. B. Du Bois.ā The Journal of African American History 90, no. 4 (2005): 368ā86.
Boshoff, Carel Willem Hendrik. āChrist in Black Theology.ā Missionalia 9, no. 3 (1981): 107ā25.
Chike, Chigor. āBlack Christology for the Twenty-First Century.ā Black Theology 8, no. 3 (2010): 357ā78.
Cleage, Albert B. āThe Black Messiah and the Black Revolution.ā In Quest for a Black Theology, edited by James J. Gardiner, and James Deotis Roberts, Philadelphia, PA: Pilgrim Press, 1971.
Cone, James H. āStrange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree.ā Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 148 (2014): 7ā17.
Cone, James H. āWho is Jesus Christ for us Today?ā Christianity and Crisis 35, no. 6 (1975): 81ā85.
Douglas, Kelly Brown. The Black Christ. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
Grant, Jacquelyn. āBlack Christology: Interpreting Aspects of the Apostolic Faith.ā Mid-Stream 24, no. 4 (1985): 366ā75.
Hoyt, Thomas. āChristology and the African-American Pilgrimage.ā In Christology in Dialogue, edited by R. F. Berkey, and S. A. Edwards, 292ā307. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1993.
McClendon III, John H. Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Siker, Jeffrey S. āHistoricizing a Racialized Jesus: Case Studies in the āBlack Christ,ā the āMestizo Christ,ā and White Critique.ā Biblical Interpretation 15, no. 1 (2007): 26ā53.
Witvliet, Theo. āIn Search of a Black Christology: The Dialectic of Cross and Resurrection.ā Cross Currents 37, no. 1 (1987): 17ā32.
Posts in this Series
- The Diverse, Rich, and Critical Imaging of Jesus Christ
- Ancestor Christologies
- Asian Christologies
- Black Christologies
- Christology and Colour Symbolism
- Critiques of Western Representations
- Indigenous Christologies
- Latin American Christologies
- Liberationist Christologies
- Migrant Christologies
- Pasifika Christologies