This eye-opening book offers an analysis of the cross and the lynching tree as religious and cultural symbols in American history. These symbols are paralleled, connected and contrasted in the text, and are ultimately shown to reveal the dark side...
God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone is an articulation of Black divinity of deliverance. Cone was a champion of black liberation theology. The book was published in 1975 and it followed his two publications, “Black Power and Black Liberation”...