Domination and Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent Lloyd on the Black Radical Tradition

Vincent Lloyd is a scholar of religion, politics, and race, whose work has focused variously on charisma, Black secularism and theology, natural law, grace, Christian ethics, and the work of Gillian Rose. Editor for many years of the journal Political Theology , Lloyd has shaped and influenced several discrete and overlapping conversations on religion and politics in the Global North. Lloyd’s most recent book, Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination , carries his work further from political theology and Black Studies into activist spaces and the public realm. This interview was conducted with Maxwell Kennel in late 2023 and early 2024, and it focuses on the major contours of Lloyd’s thought in the context of Black dignity, covering topics from the complex intersections of religion and politics in the Black radical tradition to the politics of violence.