"readers walk away with a richer understanding of race in America ... Junior and Schipper help readers understand complex forces at work." -- Matthew Schlimm, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

"A beautiful book" -- Nick Taliaferro, WURD Radio

"Black Samson is simultaneously specific and expansive, a fascinating and original contribution to scholarship at the intersections of American religious history and African American literary studies. Junior and Schipper persuasively demonstrate that the Samson myth has figured as a site for contesting race in many different communities across American history." -- Josef Sorett, author of Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

"This is an original and ingenious book. The fact that biblical characters such as Samson have played a large role in black politics of response in the United States is well-known. Yet there is a void in scholarship on biblical characters using African American informed hermeneutics. Black Samson fills that gap and goes a long way toward expanding the fields of biblical studies, American religion, and African American studies." -- Jonathan L. Walton, Dean of the Divinity School, Wake Forest University

"This concise study examines the use of biblical imagery of Samson to depict African Americans' freedom struggles...Recommended. General readers through faculty." -- Choice