A Misrepresented People

"""Darrius Hills is absolutely meticulous in his methodology. He knows he is wading into contested academic territory, and he carefully and confidently argues for the importance of centering Black men and Black manhood. He doesn't just assert, but with detail examines, relevant texts - attuned to nuances - and situates them in the larger context of academic conversations. Hills understands and explicates Black male studies, womanist religious studies, Black liberation theologies, and literary studies, and weaves their conversations into a comprehensive whole to show both the challenges and openings around their understandings and portrayal of Black men, Black masculinity, and Black manhood. Hills's text is an important intervention in womanist studies, womanist religious studies, Black male studies and Black feminisms. His constructive proposition of coalitional, collaborative, open, possible and relational Black manhood will be the ground and springboard for the work of other scholars who seek to disrupt old dialogues and construct new conversations in gender and sexuality studies and in Black and Africana Studies.""--Monica A. Coleman, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology"