This book from a second-generation black theologian is as important as it is welcome. James Cone and Gayraud Wilmore, Deotis Roberts and Major Jones, now have in Noel Erskine a worthy and able bearer of the fruits of their labors. They have also a companion in the continuing struggle of black people for freedom against bondage, for justice against oppression, for identity against anonymity, and for the full humanity of all human persons and com munities.