Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who Is the Black Christ? -- Is the Black Christ Enough? -- Ch. 1. The Roots of the Black Christ -- Slaveholding Christianity and the White Christ -- Slave Christianity and the Black Christ -- Black Nationalists and the Color of Christ -- Early Black Literature and the Black Christ -- Ch. 2. The Black Struggle and the Black Christ -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Christ -- Malcolm X and the Color of Christ -- Ch. 3. The Theological Development of the Black Christ -- The Relationship between Blackness and Christ -- The Significance of Liberation and Reconciliation -- Violence or Nonviolence? -- Ch. 4. A Critical Assessment of the Black Christ -- An Assessment of Each Claim -- Is the Black Clirist Adequate? -- The Emergence of Womanist Theology -- Ch. 5. A Womanist Approach to the Black Christ -- Laying a Womanist Foundation -- Something More about the Blackness of Christ -- The Womanist Black Christ Challenges Womanists and the Church -- The Black Christ from a Womanist Eye.