Black Is a Church: Christianity and the Contours of African American Life
The title of this new Josef Sorett's book may be questionable. However, the content is largely worth reading.
"Across four chapters that proceed as chronologically organized episodes, Black is a Church maps the ways in which black American culture and identity has been animated by a particular set of, often unmarked, Protestant logics. In doing so, the book charts the mutually reinforcing discourses of racial authenticity and religious orthodoxy that have made Christianity constitutive of the content and forms of blackness."