We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks is a collection of 10 essays on the way in which white culture marginalizes black males. The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies.
In We Real Cool, hooks suggests that black males are forced to repress themselves in white America. She suggests the ways in which racist and sexist attitudes developed in American culture have criminalized ...
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks is a collection of 10 essays on the way in which white culture marginalizes black males. The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies.
In We Real Cool, hooks suggests that black males are forced to repress themselves in white America. She suggests the ways in which racist and sexist attitudes developed in American culture have criminalized and dehumanized black males, and the ways in which these myths have harmed the black community.
In the preface, hooks expresses her discontent with the fact that there is a diverse body of work available about black female liberation and resistance to self hatred, racism, sexism and classism but that is very little critical work (literature, films or otherwise) of work doing the same for black men. Her hope is that that black men will tell their stories of how they have resisted self hatred in their own lives.
Chapter 1 plantation patriarchy...
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