Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Esau McCaulley
InterVarsity Press
Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation -- with examinations of how Scripture speaks to topics often overlooked by white interpreters, such as ethnicity, political protest, policing, and slavery. McCaulley advocates for an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible -- in which the particular questions coming out of Black communities are given pride of place and the Bible is given space to respond by affirming, challenging, and, at times, reshaping Black concerns.