Black Theology-Essays on Gender Perspectives

What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a womans only discussion. But in reality men have a gender too. Some say it is biological; others claim it has to do with socialization. Hopkinss career has focused on defining what a black American man is and how he builds bridges of support and engagement with women. Hopkinss research as a theologian and his experiences substantiate that the importance of religious viewpoints principled values and future hope remain key to any successful creation of a new African American male and new healthy male-female interactions. Dwight Hopkins Black Theology: Essays on Gender Perspective is restorative gender justice at-work! . . . Reinterpreting the headline events that reveal the psychosocial vulnerability of Black men he walks the reader through the traumas with the hope of restoring the dignity of Black manhood. While seeking to recover the degraded Black male body Hopkins simultaneously advocates gender equality through redefining Black male heteronormativity as a liberating presence that does not diminish other gender identities. --Lee H. Butler Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Theology and Psychology Founder Center for the Study of Black Faith and Life Chicago Theological Seminary Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of the International Association of Black Religions and Spiritualities a network of members from India Japan Australia Fiji Hawaii and the United States Jamaica Brazil England South Africa Botswana Zimbabwe and Ghana. His many books include Teaching Global Theologies (coeditor 2015) The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology (coeditor 2012) and Walk Together Children (coeditor Cascade Books 2010).