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We real cool : Black men and masculinity / Bell Hooks.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .H7417 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- hooks, bell, 1952-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Social conditions.
- African American men.
- African American men--Social life and customs.
- African American men--Psychology.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- United States.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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 wellTreats the taboo subjects: Black men's emotional needs; Sadistic mothers; The adult male's need for his father
- Contents:
- Preface: about Black men: don't believe the hype
- Plantation patriarchy
- Gangsta culture: a piece of the action
- Schooling Black males
- Don't make me hurt you: black male violence
- It's a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out
- From angry boys to angry men
- Waiting for daddy to come home: Black male parenting
- Doing the work of love
- Healing the hurt
- The coolness of being real.
- ISBN:
- 0415969263
- 0415969271
- OCLC:
- 52819816
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