[1] Floyd-Thomas is a Womanist Christian social ethicist whose research interests include Womanist thought, Black Church Studies, liberation theology and ethics, critical race theory, critical pedagogy and postcolonial studies.
Cannon, a former student of Beverly Harrison,[2] continues to mentor and influence Floyd-Thomas' work and pedagogical style.
To a large extent, Womanist thought developed as the corrective to this within black theology and ethics.
In the early 1980s, Katie Geneva Cannon, Jacquelyn Grant, and Delores Williams were students at Union Theological Seminary, whose teachers included James H. Cone, Beverly Harrison, and others.
Cannon, Grant and Williams, while appreciating the work of early liberationists like Cone and Harrison, sought a way to frame their own experiences as black women.
Paralleling the four-part definition provided by Walker, Floyd-Thomas names four "tenets" of Womanist ethics as "Radical Subjectivity, Traditional Communalism, Redemptive Self-Love and Critical Engagement.
De La Torre titled Beyond the Pale—one subtitled Reading Ethics from the Margins (exploring twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers from a Christian liberationist perspective),[10] the other Reading Theology from the Margins (looking at thirty classic theologians)[11] Her most recent publication co-authored with Juan M. Floyd-Thomas and Mark G. Toulouse, is entitled The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture.
[16] Past BRSG honorees include James H. Cone, Peter Paris, Cornel West, J. Deotis Roberts, Henry and Ella Mitchell, Jacquelyn Grant, Katie G. Cannon, Vincent Harding, Delores S. Williams, Robert M. Franklin, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Gayraud S. Wilmore, Renita J. Weems, Walter E. Fluker, M. Shawn Copeland, Emilie Townes, Luther E. Smith, Jr., Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Jeremiah A Wright Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, James A. Forbes, Jr., Randall C. Bailey, Teresa Fry Brown, Rev.
Dr. Dennis Wiley, co-pastors of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C.