Abstract
The essay will address what I perceive to be a problem in Black liberation theology's descriptions of God, liberation, and Black experience. By linking, inextricably, God and liberation to Black resistance to White supremacy, Black liberation theology presents a roadblock to describing the diverse expressions of African American life. I contend that this theological roadblock commits hermeneutical violence to diverse Black communities by syndicating difference into racialized discourse. I wish to put forward a reading of sexual difference in Black life that presents the possibility of transcending what I believe to be static discourses regarding homosexuality that ground Black queers as an object to be pitied or as a challenge to the health of the Black body politic. While Black liberation theology attempts to make space for Black queers, I contend that its fixation upon Black experiences as bound by crisis cannot provide substantive theological resources for Black queers.
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