Through the voices of some of today's most prominent African-American writers, this collection of essays and stories on contemporary African-American men's experience explores the intimate territory beyond the myths about brutalizing and bruatalized black men in a harsh white world. Includes works by Houston Baker, Amiri Baraka, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Walter Mosley, and John E. Wideman.
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Through the voices of some of today's most prominent African-American writers, this collection of essays and stories on contemporary African-American men's experience explores the intimate territory beyond the myths about brutalizing and bruatalized black men in a harsh white world. Includes works by Houston Baker, Amiri Baraka, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Walter Mosley, and John E. Wideman.
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Boston. 1996. Beacon Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807009369. Foreword by August Wilson. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David High. Jacket photo by Steven H. Begleiter. keywords: Men Anthology African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER-It is rare in America for African-American men to have the opportunity to express who they are, what they think, or how they feel. As the nemesis in the American psyche, they have been silenced by an image that is at once celebrated and maligned. In this first anthology of contemporary African-American men's writing, black men share their experiences as the revered and reviled of America. Through the voices of some of today's most prominent African-American writers, including August Wilson, John Edgar Wideman, Derrick Bell, and Walter Mosley, SPEAK MY NAME explores the intimate territory behind the myths about black masculinity. These intensely personal essays and stories reveal contemporary black men from the vantage point of their own lives-as men with proper names, distinctive faces, and strong family ties. Writing about everything from ‘how it feels to be a problem' to relationships between fathers and sons, these men reveal to us both great courage and an amazing love for each other and themselves. In a stunning tribute to a centuries-old brotherhood of heroes, black men come together to challenge America finally to see them as individuals, to hear their long-silenced voices-to speak their names. From the Introduction-‘I edited this anthology because I personally required it in order to understand how black men have changed since the 1960s, to better understand how those three intervening decades have required change of black men. At this critical hour, no one seems to know who black men are beyond a narrow mainstream representation in which it seems they can only be superathletes, superentertainers, or supercriminals. ' inventory #22036.
