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We Real Cool - Black Men and Masculinity (Hardcover, New ed)
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We Real Cool - Black Men and Masculinity (Hardcover, New ed)
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Black men are cool. But most books about black men miss the mark,
making the same points - difficult childhood, white racism, poverty
- they describe without meaningful explanation. bell hooks'
brilliant new book We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity goes
where everyone else has been unwilling to go. Without casting
blame, hooks tells hard truths: black men are feared, admired, made
the objects of sexual fantasy, envied, but rarely loved. Black men
are hated, and hooks tells us why. In these critical essays, hooks
examines what black males fear most (maternal sadism, lopss,
emasculation) and probes the depths of their longing for intimacy,
for fathers, for meaningful relationships. Highlighting the value
of a feminist approach to understanding black masculinity, hooks
looks at the way patriarchal thought and action undermine black
male self-esteem. With compassion and generosity, bell hooks
contends that black men become loving individuals only as the
accept full accountability for shaping their destiny. Taking as her
starting point powerful writing on black masculinity from the
sixties and seventies, bell hooks looks seriously at the problems
black males face - both the ones nop
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