Abstract
This article examines the role of Black and womanist theologies as critiques of capitalism. Arguing that capitalism is the economic structural context for Black people's experiences of subordination, I examine how engagement with capitalism interacts with categories of theological sources, understandings of sin, and the meaning of salvation. Comparing classic Black and womanist theologians with Cornel West's model of democratic socialism, I conclude that Albert Cleage comes the closest to rising to West's challenge, and that future Black and womanist theologies should follow their lead in order to explicitly connect current manifestations of racism with economic exploitation.
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