We Real Cool

TRAMA

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.

NOTE EDITORE

"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--We Real 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?"

SOMMARIO

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

AUTORE

bell hooks is one of our leading social and cultural critics. Among her more than twenty books is Salvation: Black People and Love and Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem. Four titles are published by Routledge: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Outlaw Culture, Reel to Real, and Where We Stand: Class Matters.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415969277
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 0.56 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 184