We Real Cool

"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?"

ISBN 0415969271   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415969277 (What's this?)   Pages 160 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 298 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 11 Dec 2003   Height (mm) 229 Non-book description xvii, 162 p. ;   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress E185.86 \.   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 305.38896073   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface: about black men: don't believe the hype
Ch. 1		plantation patriarchy		1
Ch. 2		gangsta culture: a piece of the action		15
Ch. 3		schooling black males		33
Ch. 4		don't make me hurt you: black male violence		47
Ch. 5		it's a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out		67
Ch. 6		from angry boys to angry men		85
Ch. 7		waiting for daddy to come home: black male parenting		101
Ch. 8		doing the work of love		115
Ch. 9		healing the hurt		133
Ch. 10		the coolness of being real		147

""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: Black Men and Masculinity, hooks states in the preface that these incendiary terms are her terms of reference."-The Independent, 2004

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