ABSTRACT
When I met Vincent Wimbush as one of the speakers at the African Americans and the Bible conference he had organized and convened in New York City in 1999, I had just completed a doctoral dissertation on the poetics of call and response in the tradition of African American folk sermons. His conviction that scriptures were the perfect locus where systems of domination could be most creatively questioned, challenged, and subverted in aesthetic and politically meaningful strategies was entirely self-evident to me.
