Godforsaken

On the Possibility of Black Faith and Black Care

Abstract

This article explores black trauma as the event of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its afterlives. It invites us to consider how antiblackness structures black people in a godforsaken matrix of trauma. Turning to Jesus’ ministry, passion, and death in the Gospels, I explore Jesus’ demonstration of faith as a model for thinking about black faith and care amid trauma.