Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream

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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream

This edition

"Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream" . Ed. Don Belton. Boston: Beacon, 1995. xiii+272 pp.

Table of contents

Introduction: speak my name / Don Belton -- Part one. How does it feel to be a problem? How does it feel to be a problem? / Trey Ellis -- Confessions of a nice Negro, or why I shaved my head / Robin D.G. Kelley -- The night I was nobody / John Edgar Wideman -- On violence / David Nicholson -- Why must a Black writer write about sex? (excerpt) / Dany Laferriere -- Albert Murray on stage: an interview / Louis Edwards -- Part two. Playing hardball. Mr. Brown and the sweet science / Randall Kenan -- Playing hardball (from Colored people) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- On the distinction of "Jr." / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- A mighty good man / Dennis A. Williams -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A turn for the worse / Bruce Morrow -- Part three. Go home to your wife. Go home to your wife / Cecil Brown -- My mother and Mitch / Clarence Major -- A liar in love / Quinn Eli -- The sexual diversion: the Black man/Black woman debate in context / Derrick Bell -- Music, darkrooms, and Cuba / Richard Perry -- Part four. Our lives together. Cool brother (from Out of the madness) / Jerrold Ladd -- Palm wine / Reginald McKnight -- The Black family / Amiri Baraka -- Fade to Black: once upon a time in multiracial America / Joe Wood -- Where we live: a conversation with Essex Hemphill and Isaac Julien / Don Belton -- Part five. Heroes. Voodoo for Charles / Don Belton -- The Black man: hero / Walter Mosley -- Pain and glory: some thoughts on my father / Quincy Troupe -- Race, rage, and intellectual development: a personal journey / Haki R. Madhubuti -- Rickydoc: the Black man as hero / Arthur Flowers.

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A0296

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