Theology is widely accepted as the study of God and religious beliefs. Liberation theology applies the study of God and religious beliefs to the study and experience of racial, gender, and class oppression. As such, liberation theology is a theology of, by, and for those who do (as in praxis) theology and those who stand in solidarity with them. Such reasoning has led to the formation of various liberation theologies (Yellow, Red, and Black) that address various oppressed groups. From this line derives the philosophy of black liberation theology, which seeks to liberate black people from multiple forms of political, social, economic and religious subjugation by interpreting Christian theology as a theology of liberation. While Black Liberation Theology aligns itself with the oppressed, this article invokes the subversive memory of slavery to ask whether there can be a White Liberation Theology; which would look at white privilege (oppressor). Black liberation theology is the systematic analysis of the historical experience of black people in the United States, which affirms slave/African American humanity in the world. It is, according to one of the original proponents of the philosophy, James H. Cone, “A rational study of God's being in the world in light of the existential situation of an oppressed community, relating the forces of liberation to the essence of the Gospel , who is Jesus Christ." Black liberation theology is systematic in that it has evolved over four hundred years, dating back to the first Africans who were robbed and brought to this country. This theology originated with slaves as they incorporated their spiritual and holistic understandings of the universe into the distorted Christianity of passivity and reproduction...... middle of paper ......demy of Religious 44. 3 (1976) 517 -534. PrintCone, James H. A Black Theology of Liberation. 20th anniversary edition. Originally published in 1970. New York: Orbis Books, 1990. Print Harris, Paula and Doug Schaupp. Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World. Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2004. Print. Herzog, Frederick. “The Liberation of White Theology.” Christian Century (1974): 316-319. The Christian Century Foundation. Network. November 22, 2013. Hopkins, Dwight N. Introducing Black Liberation Theology. New York: Orbis Books, 1999. Print.Jensen, Robert. “White Privilege Shapes the US,” Baltimore Sun July 19, 1998: C-1.Web November 15, 2013Perkinson, James W. White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity. New York: PalgraveMacmillan, 2004. Amazon.Web. November 19, 2013Reist, Benjamin. Theology in Red, White, and Black Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975. Print