We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Book

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse."In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--WeReal Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: "this is a culture that does not love black males:" "they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys. And especially, black men do not love themselves. How could they? How could they be expected to love, surrounded by so much envy, desire, and hate?"Read More

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  • Waterstones

    Are black men cool, or are they despised? This text goes beyond the usual analysis of the black male - difficult childhood, white racism, poverty - to ask questions which other books are unwilling to address, examining what black males fear most and

  • Blackwell

    bell hooks assures her readers that the crisis affecting the black male spirit must--and can--be addressed. In this taboo-breaking book she names the strategies that can ensure black males live fully and well. When women get together and talk...

  • 0415969271
  • 9780415969277
  • bell hooks
  • 11 December 2003
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
  • 1
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