This course explores how the Black body materializes through theology and the cultural production of embodied Blackness and how it becomes a site for doing liberative ethical work. The project of Black liberation theologians and ethicists is to free the Black body from the constraints of colonized Christianity, yet few theorize the Black body and blackness as site of religion and site of morality through which our constructive ethics arise. We will study the literature, music, and theories of Black embodiment and ground our study in the normative concerns of Christian liberative theology and ethics. Our goal is to use the cultural production of Black embodiment as a moral source to craft a constructive ethical response that centers Black people’s resistance, healing, and liberation.