We real cool : Black men and masculinity / bell hooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021, author.

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.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 162 pages.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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?"

Contents:

About Black men : don't believe the hype

Plantation patriarchy

Gangsta culture : a piece of the action

Schooling Black men

Don't make me hurt you: black male violence

It's a dick thing : beyond sexual acting out

From angry boys to angry me

Waiting for daddy to come home

Doing the love do

Healing the hurt

The coolness of being real.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-135-88054-9

1-135-88055-7

1-280-04635-X

0-203-64220-1

0-415-96927-1

9780203642207

OCLC:

56758052