1. Preface: about black men: don't believe the hype
2. chapter 1: plantation patriarchy
3. chapter 2: gangsta culture: a piece of the action
4. chapter 3: schooling black men
5. chapter 4: don't make me hurt you: black male violence
6. chapter 5: it's a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out
7. chapter 6: from angry boys to angry me
8. chapter 7: waiting for daddy to come home
9. chapter 8: doing the love do
10. chapter 9: healing the hurt
11. chapter 10: the coolness of being real
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 andSelf-Esteem. Four titles are published by Routledge: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice ofFreedom, Outlaw Culture, Reel to Real, and Where WeStand: Class Matters.
"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
"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
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