Persistent cultural images of black female bodies as icons of deviant sexuality not only engender violence against black women but also diminish our society and our churches. As long as historical memory and cultural stereotypes depict the black female body as property, as an icon for deviant sexuality, or as a site for the “cultural production of evil,” womanist theologians must help us reconfigure human selfhood. My project shows how a theological understanding of the black female body can reclaim salutary images of sexuality and embodiment. The project is a joint venture of womanist theology and narrative theory that uses black women’s narratives to stimulate moral imagination, deepen critique of systemic social injustice, and construct a theological anthropology. Such a venture can debunk cultural myths of black womanhood and suggest political and social solutions to a cultural and religious problem. Black Women’s Bodies and God Politics addresses, on the one hand, theological anthropologies that fail to attend to race and gender and are complicit, however unwittingly, with the cultural violence against black women’s bodies. The project addresses, on the other hand, approaches by critical theory and womanist ethics that overlook the significance of a theological response. I offer an interrogation of received theologies and propose a womanist theology of the self that demonstrates how moral agency is negotiated when autonomy cannot be taken for granted. Beyond merely political and ethical interventions, my proposal requires a theological response that recasts human subjectivity in light of the imago Dei and affirms embodiment on theological grounds. Race and gender oppression are theological problems that require rethinking revelation and eschatology. Womanist eschatological identity is a refusal to accept dehumanization and means identity is shaped by the ongoing ethical task of imaging God and in light of hope for new transfigurative possibilities.