Jennifer Susanne Leath Black, Quare | sku-2038635959

Jennifer Susanne Leath's Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People: Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics is a hardcover in Religion & Religious Studies Books, SKU sku-2038635959. Leath examines Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist reading of Maât, the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth.

She argues for using Maât as a foundation for rethinking Black sexual ethics, applying ancient Egyptian moral codes to quare ethics of the erotic and considering relationships and democratic practices from a contemporary Maâtian perspective. The book draws on Pan-Africanism and the work of Alice Walker, E. Patrick Johnson, Cheikh Anta Diop, Sylvia Wynter and Sun Ra.

Leath considers how those traditions and thinkers inform Maâtian justice in relation to Black sexual experiences and ethical frameworks for justice in the United States.