"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...

"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?"

Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/12/2003
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.20w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780415969277


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2003 pg. 49
Booklist 01/01/2004 pg. 796
Multicultural Review 09/01/2004 pg. 95
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 51

About the Author

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.