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Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America
Brotherman The Odyssey of Black Men in America Author:Herb Boyd (Editor), Robert L. Allen (Editor), Tom Feelings (Illustrator) The purpose of this extraordinary anthology is made abundantly clear by the editors' stated intention: "to create a living mosaic of essays and stories in which Black men can view themselves, and be viewed without distortion." In this, they have succeeded brilliantly. Brotherman contains more than one hundred and fifty sel... more »ections, some never before published--from slave narratives, memoirs, social histories, novels, poems, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, position papers, and essays.
Brotherman books us passage to the world that Black men experience as adolescents, lovers, husbands, fathers, workers, warriors, and elders. On this journey they encounter pain, confusion, anger, and love while confronting the life-threatening issues of race, sex, and politics--often as strangers in a strange land. The first collection of its kind, Brotherman gathers together a multitude of voices that add a new, unforgettable chapter to American cultural identity.
Forefathers. The griot's voice. I am a black man / George Edward Tait --
IKOP MBOG : an account of an African child's initiation / Nouk Bassomb --
On viewing the coast of Africa / Howard Thurman --
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass --
Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington --
Let the dead bury their dead / Randall Kenan --
The souls of black folk / W.E.B. DuBois --
Message of Marcus Garvey to membership of Universal Negro Improvement Association from Atlanta Prison / Marcus Garvey --
Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison. --
A son in the family. Of fathers and sons. Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe --
Black boy / Richard Wright --
Father / Langston Hughes --
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin --
Nightmare / Malcolm X --
Colored people / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --
Tragic magic / Wesley Brown --
Ten seconds / Louis Edwards --
A talk with my father / Earl Ofari Hutchinson --
A private war / Nick Chiles --
Father's pledge / Haki R. Madhubuti --
Boyz 'n the hood. Beetlecreek / William Demby --
Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown --
Dancers on the shore / William Melvin Kelley --
Strike and fade / Henry Dumas --
The screamers / Amiri Baraka --
Way past cool / Jess Mowry --
Two fools / Jabari Asim --
Ghetto bastard / Kevin Powell --
Brer Rabbit escapes again / Yusef Salaam --
Reflecting black / Michael Eric Dyson --
The ghetto solution / Roland Gilbert/Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor. --
Relationships. When a man loves a woman. Black women / Robert Fleming --
Middle passage / Charles Johnson --
The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt --
Another good loving blues / Arthur Flowers --
Elbow room / James Alan McPherson --
Home repairs / Trey Ellis --
The lonely crusade / Chester Himes --
Sex and racism in America / Calvin C. Hernton --
No other tale to tell / Richard Perry --
White butterfly / Walter Mosley --
All-night visitors / Clarence Major --
What's love got to do with it. First poem for Linnet / Gerald Early --
A new man / Edward Jones --
My sparrow / Ron Stodghill II --
Losing Absalom / Alexs D. Pate --
What is life? / Kalamu Ya Salaam --
A father's lament / Damu Hakim --
Makes me wanna holler / Nathan McCall --
On the A-train to Venus with Isis / Ralph Wiley --
My brother's keeper. The walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher --
Brothers / Sylvester Monroe --
Lush life / Playthell Benjamin --
Pledging alpha / Kenneth Meeks --
Invisible life / E. Lynn Harris --
Vanishing rooms / Melvin Dixon --
In an afternoon light / Essex Hemphill --
African-American males and survival against AIDS / W.J. Brandy Moore --
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
Trouble man. The permanence of racism. If we must die / Claude McKay --
The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer --
Billy / Albert French --
Shannon / Gordon Parks --
The future of black men / William Strickland --
Parallel time / Brent Staples --
Race and gender stereotyping in the Thomas confirmation hearings / Ernest Allen, Jr. --
Days of grace / Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad --
Faces at the bottom of the well / Derrick Bell --
Fighting on two fronts. When Harlem was in vogue / David Levering Lewis --
And then we heard the thunder / John Oliver Killens --
The Port Chicago mutiny / Robert L. Allen --
Beyond Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Bloods / Wallace Terry --
Black consciousness in the Vietnam years / Clyde Taylor --
Locked in and locked out. Racehoss : Big Emma's boy / Albert Race Sample --
Iron city / Lloyd L. Brown --
Black prisoners, white law / Robert Chrisman --
Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman --
Make me wanna holler / Nathan McCall --
Scars / Jarvis Masters --
Father behind bars / Arthur Hamilton, Jr., and William Banks --
Still black, still strong : survivors of the U.S. war against black revolutionaries / Dhoruba Bin Wahad --
Color and class. A man called White / Walter White --
Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes --
The almost white boy / Willard Motley --
Man in the mirror / Stanley Crouch --
Blacks who pass / Ronald E. Hall --
Black worker in the deep South / Hosea Hudson --
Blood on the forge / William Attaway --
The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee --
Company man / Brent Wade --
The content of our character / Shelby Steele --
The rage of a privileged class / Ellis Cose --
Reflections of an affirmative action baby / Stephen L. Carter.
Black magic. And bid him sing. Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen --
Infants of the spring / Wallace Thurman --
Falling pieces of the broken sky / Julius Lester --
Writin' is fightin' / Ishmael Reed --
We wear the mask. The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger / Cecil Brown --
On the real side / Mel Watkins --
Here I stand / Paul Robeson --
This life / Sidney Poitier --
By any means necessary : the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X / Spike Lee with Ralph Wiley --
In the game. I never had it made / Jackie Robinson --