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.

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

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