Womanist Bibliographic Resources

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This is a Select Womanist (and Black Feminist) Bibliography Resource that Dr. Smith will continue to expand.
If you have a bibliographic womanist or Black feminist resource you’d like added to this list, email full citation to womanistprofessor@mitzijsmith.net.

 

  • Allen, Lisa. 2021. A Womanist Theology of Worship: Liturgy, Justice, and Communal
    Righteousness. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Anderson, Cheryl B. 2004. Women, Ideology, and Violence. Critical Theory and the
    Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law.
    London/New York: T&T Clark.
  • Andrews, William L. 1986. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the
    Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Bailey, Moya. 2022. Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance. New York: New York University Press.
  • Baker-Bell, April. 2020. Linguistic Justice. Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.
    New York: Routledge.
  • Baker-Fletcher, Karen. 2006. Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective. Chalice.
  • Baldwin, James. 1991. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage.
  • Bassard, Katherine Clay. “Gender and Genre: Black Women’s Autobiography and the Ideology of
    Literacy” 26 African American Review (1992): 119-29.
  • Bassard, Katherine Clay. 2011. Transforming Scriptures. African American Women Writers and the Bible. University of Georgia Press.
  • Betancourt, Sofía. 2022. Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Blair-Lavallais, Yvette R. Scrimpin’ and Scrapin’: The Hardships and Hustle of Women and Food Insecurity in Texas Through a Womanist Theological Lens. Arpege Circle Books, 2022.
  • Boyd, Stacy. 2011. Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment. New York: Palgrave Mcmillan.
  • Bridgeman, Valerie. 2009. “Nahum.” In The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from
    Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Hugh R. Page, Jr., et al., 183–88. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2009.
  • Bridgeman, Valerie. 2016. “I Will Make Boys Their Princes’” A Womanist Reading of the
    Children in the Book of Isaiah.” In Womanist Readings of the Bible, edited by Gay L.
    Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, 311-30.
  • Byron, Gay L. and Hugh Page Jr. 2022. Black Scholars Matter: Visions, Struggles and Hopes in Africana Biblical Studies. ATL: SBL.
  • Byron, Gay L. 2002. Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature.
    New York/London: Routledge.
  • Byron, Gay L. and Vanessa Lovelace. 2016. Womanist Interpretations of the Bible. Expanding the Discourse. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
  • Cannon, Katie G. and Anthony Pinn, editors. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology. New York: Oxford Univ Press.
  • Cannon, Katie G. 2006. Black Womanist Ethics. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
  • Cannon, Katie G. 2001. The Womanist Theology Primer: Remembering What We Never Knew; The Epistemology of Womanist Theology. Women’s Ministries Program Area, National Ministries Division, Presbyterian Church.
  • Cannon, Katie Geneva. 1995. Katie’s Canon. Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum.
  • Cannon, Katie Geneva, Emilie M Townes, Angela D. Simms, editors. 2011. Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Clark, Jawanza Eric. Reclaiming Stolen Earth: An Africana Ecotheology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2022.
  • Coleman, Monica A. 2016. BiPolar Faith. A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Coleman, Monica A. 2008. Making a Way Out of No Way. A Womanist Theology. Minneapolis:
    Fortress.
  • Collier-Thomas, Bettye. 1998. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Collier-Thomas, Bettye. 2010. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion. New York: Knopf.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 2019. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham, NC: Duke Univ Press.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. Fighting Words. Black Women and the Search for Justice.
    London/Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Cooper, Anna Julia. 1988. A Voice from the South. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Copeland, Shawn M. 2010. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Crawford, A. Elaine Brown. 2002. Hope in the Holler: A Womanist Theology. Westminster John Knox.
  • Crowder, Stephanie Buckhanon. 2016. When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
  • Crumpton, Stephanie. 2014. A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cullen, Margaret. 2005. “Holy Fire: Biblical Radicalism in the Narratives of Jarena Lee and
    Zilpha Elaw.” In The Force of Tradition. Response and Resistance in Literature,
    Religion, and Cultural Studies. Donald G. Marshall, Editor. Lanham: Rowman and
    Littlefield.
  • Darden, Lynne St Clair. 2015. Scripturalizing Revelation: An African American Postcolonial Reading of Empire. Atlanta: SBL.
  • Darling, Marsha J. Tyson. 2011. “The Personal is Always Political: Reflections on Creating Habitable Space in Academia.” The Black Professoriat. Negotiating the Habitable Space in the Academy. Sandra Jackson and Richard Greggory Johnson III, Executive Editors, 228-46. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Davary, Bahar. Ecotheology and Love: The Converging of Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
  • Davis, Stacy. 2010. “Susanna.” The Africana Bible. Hugh R. Page, Jr., General Editor, 312–13. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Davis, Stacy. 2022. “Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric: Psalm 137 and African American Responses to
    Violence.” In Bitter the Chastening Rod, 189-90.
  • Dickerson, Febbie C. 2019. Luke, Widows, Judges, and Stereotypes (Womanist Readings of
    Scripture). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Douglas, Kelly Brown. 1999. Sexuality and the Black Church. A Womanist Perspective.
    Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Douglas, Kelly Brown. 2015. Stand Your Ground. Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Douglas, Kelly Brown. 1998. The Black Christ. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Dube, Musa. 2000. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice.
  • DuBois, W.E.B. 1989. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Bantam.
  • Dunbar, Ericka Shawndricka. 2021. Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural
    Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora. New York: Routledge.
  • Fields, Barbara and Karen Fields. 2014. Racecraft. The Soul of Inequality in American Life. New York: Verso.
  • Floyd-Thomas, Stacey. 2006. Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. NY: New York Univ Press.
  • Floyd-Thomas and Katie Cannon. 2006. Mining the Motherlode. Methods in Womanist Ethics. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim.
  • Gafney, Wilda C. 2021. A Women’s Lectionary of the Whole Church. Vols 1 and 2. Church
    Publishing.
  • Gafney, Wilda C. 2008. Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress.
  • Gafney, Wilda C. 2017. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction To The Women Of The Torah And The Throne. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
  • Gafney, Wil. 2022. “Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives
    Matter Hermeneutic.” In Bitter the Chastening Rod, 139-57.
  • Gafney, Will. 2016. “A Womanist Midrash of Delilah: Don’t Hate the Playa Hate the game.” In
    Womanist Interpretations of the Bible, edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, 49-70.
  • Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 2000. If It Wasn’t for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 1996. “Womanist Ways of Seeing.” In Black Theology, Vol. 2, edited by James Cone and Wilmore Gayraud. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 2001. “If it Wasn’t for the Women–“: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Givens, Jarvis R. 2021. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Grant, Jacquelyn. 2007. “Servanthood Revisited: Womanist Explorations of Servanthood
    Theology.” Black Faith and Public Talk. Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black
    Theology and Black Power. Dwight N. Hopkins, Editor. Waco: Baylor Univ. Press.
  • Grant, Jacquelyn. 1989. White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus. Feminist Christology
    and Womanist Response. The American Academy of Religion, No. 64: Atlanta, Scholars
    Press.
  • Hall, K. Melchor Quick and Gwen Kirk, Editors. 2021. Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Harris, Melanie L. 2017. Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Hayes, Diana L. 2010. Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made. A Womanist Theology.
  • Hayes, Diana L. 1995. Hagar’s Daughters: Womanist Ways of Being in the World. New York: Paulist.
  • Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. 1994. Righteous Discontent. The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
  • Hill, MarKeva Gwendolyn. 2012. Womanism Against Socially-Constructed Matriarchal Images: A Theoretical Model Toward a Therapeutic Goal. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson. 1998. A Shining Thread of Hope. The History of
    Black Women in America. New York: Broadway Books.
  • Hollies, Linda H. 2003. Bodacious Womanist Wisdom. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim.
  • hooks, bell. 2005. Sisters of the Yam. Black Women and Self-Recovery. Boston, MA: South End Press.
  • hooks, bell. 1989. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston, MA: South End Press.
  • hooks, bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress. Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.
  • hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston: South End.
  • Hopkins, Dwight N. and Linda E. Thomas, eds. 2010. Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Church and Theological Education. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
  • Hudson-Weems, Clenora. 2004. Africana Womanist Literary Theory. Africa World Press.
  • Hudson-Weems, Clenora. 1993. Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. Troy, MI: Bedford.
  • Hudson-Weems, Clenora.  2022. Africana-Melanated Womanism: In It Together. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Johnson, Kimberly. 2019. The Womanist Preacher. Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit. LEX.
  • Kaalund, Jennifer 2018. Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter with the African American Great Migration: Diaspora, Place and Identity. New York: T&T Clark.
  • Kaba, Mariame. 2001. “When Black Hair Tangles with White Power.” In Tenderheaded: A
    Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories, edited by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson,
    102–108. New York: Washington Square.
  • Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us. Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming
    Justice. Chicago, IL: Haymarket.
  • King, Toni C. and S. Alease Ferguson, eds. 2011. Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline. State Univ of New York Press.
  • Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A. 2001. Misbegotten Anguish: A Theology and Ethics of Violence. St. Louis, MO: Chalice.
  • Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl. 2006. Violence and Theology. Nashville: Abingdon.
  • Lewis, Nantawan B. 2014. Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence. New York: Routledge.
  • Larsen, Nella. 2000. Passing. New York: Modern Library.
  • Lettsome, Raquel S. 2021. “Mary’s Slave Song: The Tensions and Turnarounds of Faithfully
    Reading Doule in the Magnificat.” Interpretation 75.1: 6–18.
  • Liew, Benny Tat-Siong and Shelly Matthews. 2022. Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom. ATL: SBL. This book includes essays by Wil Gafney and BIPOC scholars.
  • Lightsey, Pamela. 2015. Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology. Eugene, OR: Pickwick.
  • Lomax, Tamura. 2018. “Theorizing the Distance Between Erotophobia, Hypermoralism, and Eroticism: Toward a Black Feminist Theology of Pleasure.” BTh 16.3 (2018): 263–79.
  • Lomax, Tamura.  2018. Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Lorde, Audre, 1996, Sister Outsider, Freedom, CA: The Crossing.
  • Macmillan, Josephine. 2005 and 2012. She Is Everywhere! An Anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality. iUniverse Inc.
  • Maparyan, Layli. 2011. The Womanist Idea. New York: Routledge.
  • Martin, Clarice J. 2022. “Race Still Matters: Mapping the Afterlives of Stony the Road We
    Trod.” In Bitter the Chastening Rod, 267-70.
  • Martin, Clarice J. “A Chamberlain’s Journey and the Challenge of Interpretation for Liberation.”
    Semeia 47 (1989).
  • Martin, Clarice J. 2005.“The Eyes Have It: Slaves in the Communities of Christ-Believers.” In Christian Origins. A People’s History of Christianity, Vol. 1, edited by Richard A.
    Horsley, 221–39. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Martin, Clarice J. “‘Somebody Done Hoodoo’d the Hoodoo Man’: Language, Power, Resistance,
    and the Effective History of Pauline Texts in American Slavery.” Semeia 83/84 (1998):
    203-__.
  • Martin, Clarice. 1991. “The Haustafeln (Household Codes) in African American Biblical
    Interpretation: ‘Free Slaves’ and ‘Subordinate Women’.” Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain Hope Felder, 206–32.
    Minneapolis, MN: Fortress.
  • Martin Clarice J. 1993. “Biblical Theodicy and Black Women’s Spiritual Autobiography: ‘The
    Miry Blog, The Desolate Pit, A New Song in My Mouth’,” A Troubling in My Soul,
    edited by Emilie Townes, 13-36. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Martin, Joan M. 2000. More Than Chains and Toil. A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women. Louisville: Westminster.
  • Mitchell, Koritha, 2011, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance,
    and Citizenship, 1890–1930, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
  • Mitchem, Stephanie. 2002. Introducing Womanist Tbeologies. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Moody, Joycelyn. 2001. Sentimental Confessions. Spiritual Narratives of Nineteen-Century African American Women. Athens and London: Univ. of Georgia Press.
  • Morrison. Toni. 2019. The Source of Self-Regard. New York: Vintage.
  • Moultrie, Monique. 2017. Passionate and Pious. Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality. Durham, NC: Duke Univ Press.
  • Ngwa, Kenneth N. Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2022.
  • Norton, Yolanda. 2015.“Silenced Struggles for Survival: Finding Life in Death in the Book of
    Ruth.” In I Found God in Me. A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader, edited by
    Mitzi J. Smith, 266–80. Eugene OR: Cascade.
  • Okure, Teresa. “Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (JN 4:1–42) in Africa.” Theological Studies 70
    (2009) 401–18.
  • Okyere-Manu, Beatrice. 2014.“Colonial Mission and the Great Commission in Africa.” In
    Teaching All Nations, edited by Mitzi Smith and Lalitha Jayachitra, 15–32.
  • Omolade, Barbara. 1994. The Rising Song of Africa American Women. New York/London:
    Routledge.
  • O’Neal, Traci D. 2018. The Exceptional Negro. Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics. Atlanta: iCart Media.
  • Parker, Angela N. 2021. If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical
    Authority. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
  • Parker, Angela N. 2021. “Feminized-Minoritized Paul?: A Womanist Reading of Paul’s Body in
    the Corinthian Context.” In Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity, Minoritized
    Women Reading Race and Ethnicity, edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young Choi,
    71–88. Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield.
  • Parker, Angela N. 2022. “Rethinking ‘God-breathed’ in the Age of #BLM: A Womanist Reading of 2 Tim 3:10-17.” In Bitter the Chastening Rod, 211-28.
  • Phillips, Layli. 2006. The Womanist Reader. New York: Routledge.
  • Riggs, Marcia Y. 1997. Can I Get a Witness? Prophetic Religious Voices of African American
    Women: An Anthology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
  • Riggs, Marcia Y. 2008. Plenty Good Room: Women Versus Male Power in the Black Church.
    Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.
  • Russaw, Kimberly D. 2015. “Wisdom in the Garden: The Woman of Genesis 3 and Alice
    Walker’s Sophia.” In I Found God in Me. A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader,
    edited by Mitzi J. Smith 222–34. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015.
  • Saint Clair, Raquel. 2007. “Womanist Biblical Interpretation.” In True to Our Native Land. Brian Blount, General Editor, 54–62. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Saint Clair, Raquel. 2008. Call and Consequences: Womanist Reading of Mark. Minneapolis:Fortress.
  • Sanders, Cheryl J. 1995. Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Sanders, Dessie. 2013. Speechifying: This is the True Womanist Story. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
  • Sechrest, Love L. 2022. Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament. Eerdmans.
  • Sechrest, Love L. 2010. A Former Jew: Paul and the Dialectics of Race. New York: T&T Clark.
  • Session, Irie Lynn, Kamilah Hall Sharp, Jan Aldredge, editors. 2020. The Gathering, A Womanist Church: Origins, Stories, Sermons, and Litanies. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.
  • Sims, Angela D. 2016. Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror. Waco, TX:
    Baylor University Press.
  • Smith, Barbara. 1983. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. New York: Kitchen Table:
    Women of Color.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. Chloe and Her People: A Womanist Critical Dialogue with First Corinthians. 2023 (forthcoming). Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “Howard Thurman and the Religion of Jesus: Survival of the Disinherited and Womanist Wisdom.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 17.3 (2019): 271–92.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “Paul, Timothy and the Respectability Politics of Race: A Womanist Reading of Acts 16:1–5.” Religions / Special Issue – Current Trends in New Testament Study 10.3 (2019). Open access:
    https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/3/190
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2019. “‛Love Never Fails’: Re-Reading 1 Cor 13 and Constructing a Womanist
    Hermeneutic of Love’s Struggle.” Theologies of Failure, edited by Roberto D. Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn, 230–46. Eugene, OR: Cascade.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2015. “Give Me Jesus: Salvation History in the African American Spirituals.”
    African American Voices, edited by Thomas Slater. Vols II and I; Lewiston, NY: Mellen.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “Give Them What You Have”: A Womanist Reading of the Matthean Feeding
    Miracle (Matt 14:13–21). The Journal of the Bible and Human Transformation 3.1
    (2013). [An online peer reviewed journal],
    http://www.bibleandtransformation.com/JBHT/Volume_3_%282013%29.html
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “1 Corinthians 15:12–20” for “Between Text and Sermon.” Interpretation: A
    Journal of Bible and Theology 67.3 (2013).
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2012. “Zilpha Elaw.” Biographical History of Women Biblical Interpreters, edited by Marion Taylor. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2012. “Philemon.” Women’s Bible Commentary. Third Revised Edition, edited by
    Sharon Ringe, Carol Newsom and Jacqueline Lapsley, 605–07. Louisville:
    Westminster/John Knox.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2021. “Philemon.” Wesley One Volume Commentary.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “‘Unbossed and Unbought’: Zilpha Elaw and Old Elizabeth and a Political
    Discourse of Origins.” Black Theology: An International Journal 9.3 (2011): 287–311.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2021. “‘He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word’: A Womanist Perspective of
    Crucifixion, Sexual Violence and Sacralized Silence.” When Did We See You Naked?
    Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse, edited by Jayme R. Reaves, David Tombs and Rocio
    Figueroa, 46-66. London: SCM.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “A Womanist Activist Approach to Biblical Interpretation and Justice.”
    Touchstone 40.1 (2022): 37–45.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “Critical Agentive Reading of Biblical Texts: Prioritizing Questions, Context, and Justice.” Word & World: Reading the Bible, 42.4 (Fall 2022).
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2007. “Ephesians.” In True To Our Native Land. An African American
    Commentary of the New Testament, edited by Brian Blount, 348–62. Minneapolis, MN:
    Fortress (currently being revised and updated).
  • Smith, Mitzi J. “If Rachel Does Not Weep, Who Will?: A Pro-Choice Quality of Life Womanist
    Reading of Matthew 2.” Currents in Theology and Mission, 49.4 (2022), Special Issue, edited by Eunyung Lim.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2022. “Letter to a ‘Young’ Biblical Scholar.” Letters to a Young Theologian, edited by Henco van der Westhuizen, 170–77. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2012. Utility, Fraternity, and Reconciliation: Ancient Slavery as a Context for the Return of Onesimus,” Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Culture in
    Philemon, edited by Matthew V. Johnson, et al., 47–48. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. and Lalitha Jayachitra. 2014. Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Smith, Mitzi J., editor. 2015. I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics. Eugene, OR:
    Cascade Books.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2017. Insights from African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2017.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2020. “Hagar’s Children Still Ain’t Free: Paul’s Counterterror Rhetoric,
    Constructed Identity, Enslavement, and Galatians 3:28.” In Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity: Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early
    Christian Texts, edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young Choi, 45–70. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2022. “Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule.” Bitter the
    Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stone the Road we Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and Metoo, edited by Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker, and
    Ericka S. Dunbar Hill, 53–70. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. Angela N. Parker and Ericka S. Dunbar, editors. 2022. Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stone the Road we Trod in the Age of BLM,
    SayHerName, and Metoo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2011. The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatic Others, The Jews, and Women. Eugene, OR: Pickwick.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. 2018. Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and
    Biblical Interpretation. Eugene, OR: Cascade.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. and Michael Willett Newheart. 2023 (forthcoming). We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.
  • Smith, Mitzi J. Chloe and Her People: A Womanist Critical Reading of First Corinthians. 2023 (forthcoming).
  • Smith, Shanell T. 2014. The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Smith, Shanell T. 2020. Touched: For Survivors of Sexual Assault Like Me Who Have Been Hurt by Church Folk and for Those Who Will Care. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • Smith, Shively T. 2023. Interpreting 2 Peter Through African American Women’s Moral Writings. Atlanta: SBL Press.
  • Smith, Shively T. 2016. “One More Time with Assata on My Mind: A Womanist Rereading of the Escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in Dialogue with an African American Woman Fugitive Narrative.” In Womanist Readings of the Bible, edited by Gay L. Byron and
    Vanessa Lovelace, 139-60.
  • Smitherman, Geneva. “A Womanist Looks at the Million Man March.”  Million Man March:
    Day of Absence (1996): 104-107.
  • Smitherman, Geneva. 1977. Talkin and Testifyin. The Language of Black America. Detroit, MI:
    Wayne State University Press.
  • Stewart, Dianne M. 2020. Black Women, Black Love. American’s War on African American
    Marriage. New York: Seal.
  • Townes, Emilie, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Alison P. Gise-Johnson, Angela D. Sims, editors. 2022. Walking Through the Valley: Womanist Explorations in the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon. Louisville: Westminster John Knox. 
  • Townes, Emile M. 2007. “Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks.” Black Faith and
    Public Talk. Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power
    Dwight N. Hopkins, Editor. Waco: Baylor Univ. Press.
  • Townes, Emilie M. 2006. Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil. New York:
    Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Townes, Emilie M. 2006. Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
  • Turman, Eboni Marshall. 2013. Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church and the Council of Chalcedon. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Turman, Eboni Marshall. 
  • Wade-Gayles, Gloria. 1995. My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality. Boston: Beacon.
  • Walker, Alice. 1979. Coming Apart. New York: Bantam.
  • Walker, Alice. 2001. “Oppressed Hair Puts a ceiling on the Brain.” In Tenderheaded: A Comb-
    Bending Collection of Hair Stories, edited by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson,
    283–87. New York: Washington Square.
  • Walker, Alice. 1983 In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace.
  • Walker, Alice. 2013. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems. New World Library.
  • Walker-Barnes, Chanequa. 2019. I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation. Eerdmans.
  • Walker-Barnes, Chanequa. 2014. Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength. Eugene, OR: Cascade.
  • Washington, Harriett A. 2006. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical
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