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To illustrate the complexities of black women´s experiences of self-identification and racial embodiment, Phillis Isabella Sheppard provides an account that engages both psychoanalytic theory and the role of religion and cultural objects in self-understanding.

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Black As You See Me PART I: LIVING BLACKNESS: WOMANIST PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK WOMEN´S EXPERIENCE Living Blackness: Black Women´s Experience of Religion The Current Shape of Womanist Practical Theology Suffering and Pain, Longing and Love: Womanist Theological Perspectives on Psychic Experience PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BLACK EXPERIENCE: CRITIQUE AND APPROPRIATION Black Psychoanalysis and Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Resources Toward a Critical Appropriation of Psychoanalysis PART III: WOMANIST PRACTICAL THEOLOGY Black Women and Self Psychology: Toward a Usable Dialogue PART III: WOMANIST PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Black Embodiment and Religious Experience after Trauma: Womanist Self Psychological Perspective on the Mourning of Cultural Selfobjects A Dark Body of Goodness Created in the Image of God: Navigating Sexuality, Race, and Gender Alone and Together Black and Beautiful: Reading the Song of Songs Final Thoughts: Womanist Practices

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Phillis Isabella Sheppard is Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA.

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