Abstract
In this study, Victor Anderson traces outcroppings of ontological blackness in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in racial rhetoric it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Drawing together 18th- and 19th-century accomodationism and its assimilationist heirs with movements of Black Power adn Afrocentrism, Anderson shows that all exhibit a similar structure of racial identity. He suggests that it is time to move beyond confines of the cult of black heroic genius to what Bell Hooks has termed postmodern blackness: a racial discourse that leaves room to negotiate African American identities along lines of class, gender, sexuality, and age as well as race.
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