WE REAL COOL: Black Men and Masculinity
bell hooks, . . Routledge, $17.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-415-96927-7
Veteran pundit hooks unpacks the explosive contents of Gwendolen Brooks's famous 1960 poem "The Pool Players: Seven at the Golden Shovel," taking her title from the opening of the poem. Like Brooks, hooks worries about the men in her life, black men experiencing crises of masculinity as prisoners (sometimes literally) of patriarchal imperialism. Hooks argues that black men have become chary of the simple goodness of being loved. From George Jackson's
Reviewed on: 11/10/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 160 pages - 978-0-415-96926-0
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