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Theorizing the "Black Body" as a Site of Trauma: Implications for Theologies of Embodiment

Abstract In what ways have religious scholars theorized, or undertheorized, the "Black body" and the Black Church's response to embodiment and sexuality? How is the "Black body" configured as a site of trauma and what is the utility of theorizing the "Black body" as a figure of embodied trauma? Lastly, what implications do the latter have on the ways we theologize embodiment in the Black Church? This article seeks to address these questions through a reading that broadens the view of the Black body, seemingly maintained by some religious scholars, that insists upon the Black body as figuring a site of pleasure only.