Being a black man : at the corner of progress and peril / staff of The Washington Post, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward P. Jones ; [Kevin Merida, editor].
Merida, Kevin.; Washington Post Company.
2007
E185.86 .B3777 2007
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Title Being a black man : at the corner of progress and peril / staff of The Washington Post, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward P. Jones ; [Kevin Merida, editor].
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781586485221 (pbk.)
1586485229 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
Language English
Description xvi, 354 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number E185.86 .B3777 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.38/896073
Summary Over the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and the menaces of society, their individuality often obscured by the narrow images that linger in the public mind. Ten years after the Million Man March, the largest gathering of black men in the nation's history, Washington Post staffers began meeting to discuss what had become of black men in the ensuing decade. How could their progress and failures be measured? Their questions resulted in a Post series which generated enormous public interest and inspired a succession of dynamic public meetings. It included the findings of an ambitious nationwide poll and offered an eye-opening window into questions of race and black male identity, questions gaining increasing attention with the emergence of Senator Barack Obama as a serious presidential contender. At the end of the day, the project revealed that black men are deeply divided over how they view each other and their country. Collected in one volume with several new essays as well as an introduction by Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Edward P. Jones, these articles let us see and hear black men like they have never been seen and heard before.
Added Author Merida, Kevin.
Added Corporate Author Washington Post Company.
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Where we are
At the corner of progress and peril
A portrait shaded with promise and doubt
Who we are
The young apprentice
For the love of Ballou
A path all his own
The wrong man
His last, best cause
Dad, redefined
Special agent
Singled out
A chance to get into the room
The meaning of work
In or out of the game?
The old kinship
What we're talking about
Brothercool
Why are so many Black men in prison?
Bob Johnson on Black wealth
Where are Black men spiritually?
Not just any walk-on part.

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