WHO are OUR READERs
- Anyone who has ever asked, “Why won't he open up?”
- Couples navigating emotional disconnection.
- Learners who may never enter professional counseling.
- Guardians raising Black boys.
- Anyone intending to maintain relationships with Black boys and Black men.
- Therapists providing culturally-informed therapy to Black men and/ or interracial couples.
- Readers ready for honest, intersectional dialogues prioritizing culture and intergenerational healing.
-Allies committed to using their privileges to create space for Black vulnerability.
HOW BLACK BOYS LEARN VULNERABILITY:
ITS IMPACT ON THEIR IDENTITY AND ADULT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
“He never talks about his feelings.”
Sound familiar?
Too often, Black boys are taught to “man up” before they're even allowed to grow up. From classrooms to barbershops, from playgrounds to pews — the spaces meant to raise them also suppress them.
In this groundbreaking book, licensed mental health counselor Darius P. Coleman invites us into a powerful, necessary conversation about how Black boys are socialized to suppress vulnerability — and what that costs them in adulthood, especially in their most intimate relationships.
Whether you're an uncle, aunt, educator, parent, therapist, partner, or someone who simply cares, this book invites you into Black boyhood and how their villages unintentionally teach emotional disconnection by over-prioritizing value and worth in doing rather than feeling for Black boys and how strength can be found in creating more space rather than limiting it.
