Cover -- Contesting Post-Racialism -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Periodizing the Discourse on Black Christianity and Race -- A Restless Presence: Church Activism and "Post-Apartheid," "Post-Racial" Challenges -- Shape-Shifting: Cultural Hauntings, Contested Post-Racialism, and Black Theological Imagination -- II. Race, Social Divisions, and Restructured Ecclesial Spaces -- High School Students, the Catholic Church, and the Struggle for Black Inclusion and Citizenship in Rock Hill, South Carolina -- Christian Youth Activism and South African Black Ecclesiology -- White Theology amidst White Rhetoric on Violence -- III. Religious Cultural Impairments in Assessing Racism's Social Costs -- "They Must Have a Different God Than Our God": Towards a Lived Theology of Black Churchwomen during the United States Civil Rights Movement -- Church Youth Activism and Political and Economic Constraints within "Post-Racial" South Africa -- Black South African Christian Response to Afrophobia in Contemporary South Africa -- IV. Theology and (Re)Vitalized Race Consciousness -- Collisions between Racism and the Truth of the Cross -- Pursuing American Racial Justice and a Politically and Theologically Informed Black Church Praxis -- In Defense of "Christian Activism": The Case of Allan Boesak -- Legitimacy: The Praxis of Consensing and Consenting in the Contested Post-Racial Democratic Discourse in South Africa -- In Search of a Transforming Public Theology: Drinking from the Wells of Black Theology -- V. Concluding Thoughts -- Whither Transcendence? Framing the Contours of Transatlantic Black Unity in Contested Post-Racialized Times -- Contextuality of Black Experience and Contributions to a Wider Debate -- Contributors -- Index.