Tracey E. Hucks

Enfleshing Freedom

Theology

“In this timely second edition, Enfleshing Freedom continues to be germane and relevant well over a decade later. M. Shawn Copeland's insightful womanist and intersectional study spans the centuries and exposes the invisibility of Black women's bodily trauma from the historical accounts of slavery to the contemporary #BlackLivesMatter movement captured in an expanded new chapter. Few studies engage the depths of theological anthropology and analogize the sacrality of the suffering body journeys of Black people and the crucified Jesus as brilliantly as Copeland. Copeland's use of theology, history, Morrison's literature, and Holiday's blues commingle to advance a new Black body theology much needed in these times when Black bodies seek freedom, restoration, and re-memberance amidst a culture of social and civil violence, disposability, valuelessness. In Enfleshing Freedom, Copeland's authorial voice is distinguishingly theological, discerningly Catholic, and unabashedly womanist. A must-read for a serious study of race, religion, and the Black body.”