We Real Cool

Black Men and Masculinity

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av bell hooks, Bell Hooks

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"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?"

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-11-12
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt267 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415969277

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1. Preface: about black men: don't believe the hype2. chapter 1: plantation patriarchy3. chapter 2: gangsta culture: a piece of the action4. chapter 3: schooling black men5. chapter 4: don't make me hurt you: black male violence6. chapter 5: it's a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out7. chapter 6: from angry boys to angry me8. chapter 7: waiting for daddy to come home9. chapter 8: doing the love do10. chapter 9: healing the hurt11. chapter 10: the coolness of being real

"We Real Cool is a slim book, but it's fat (or phat) with ideas on how to encourage black men to be their real selves in the truest sense of the word." -- Karen Grigsby Bates, Ms. Winter"I read the first page of the preface holding my nose because I am sick of listening to others tell me who I am. I am out of patience with being the topic of someone's ill-informed master's thesis, dissertation, newspaper feature and magazine article. As I read on, though, Hooks put me at ease with her insight, honesty and clear prose...hooks writes to bring attention to the crossroads at which the black male stands. On one side is his very survival and perhaps his redemption. On the other is his enduring marginalization and even extinction." -- Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times"The black American feminist writer-critic and social commentator bell hooks is strong meat. Take the way she spells her name, militantly lower case. She uses terms that can scare the horses: imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy. It can never be said of this writer that she doesn't set her shop-stall up right from the beginning. In her latest work, We Real Cool: BlackMen and Masculinity, hooks states in the preface that these incendiary terms are her terms of reference." -- The Independent