Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Malice

Fiction

“In Malice, Susan Thistlethwaite highlights the ways that the agency and actions of ordinary women—the women who actually make the wheels of government run, who tell the stories about the uses and misuses of power, and who risk their lives to make change—connect with the big pictures of history. This fast-moving window on the past highlights, illuminates, and renders intelligible today’s current hatreds that require the resistance from ordinary people today.”

Protest and Praise

Arts & Literature

“Jon Michael Spencer's analysis probes sacred and secular space and broadens the focus of inquiry for students of African-American music and religious history. In the tradition of John Lovell, Wyatt Tee Walker, and James Cone, he invites us to view African-American music as a theology of human liberation and as a valuable liberationist reading of God's word. Spencer's helpful, holistic perspective highlights the tradition's unity in the quest for freedom.”

The Wounds Are the Witness

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Yolanda Pierce provides a celebration of the diverse ways the Black church nurtures gifts of leadership and moral power, gifts that are so needed for the facing of twenty-first-century crises. Pierce weaves an amazing tapestry of biblical, historical, and experiential reflection. Everyone who reads this deeply poetic and accessible theological gift will grow and be strengthened.”

Walls of Fear

Fiction

“Walls of Fear connects current events with the personal tragedies that emerge in what historians and social scientists are calling the carceral state. This exciting work of fiction provides critical insight into the reasons that so many powerful forces seek to silence and destroy the voices associated with womanist thought, critical race theory, and intersectional analyses of inequality and injustice. This is a fast-moving story with an intellectual pilgrimage!”

When Demons Float

Fiction

“The university is a place where the worst moments of human behavior can become the most important teachable moments for those committed to sharing the secrets of justice, equity, and mercy in twenty-first-century civilization with its weaponized social media and violent legacies of racism and injustice . . . When Demons Float provides a penetrating and detailed critical ethnography of twenty-first-century academia in a racialized society and transnational world and reminds us that violence is at the root of all racism.”