Speak My Name

Name: Speak My Name
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ISBN: 9780807009376

ISBN-10: 0807009377

ISBN-13: 9780807009376

Edition: 1997

Authors: Don Belton, August Wilson, August Wilson

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DEEPLY PROVOCATIVE, CHALLENGING AND USEFUL. --JON KATZ, THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Including the work of Derrick Bell, Trey Ellis, Haki Madhubuti, Clarence Major, Walter Mosley, Quincy Troupe, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson, among others, Speak My Name explores the intimate territory behind the myths about black masculinity. Don Belton has accomplished an essential task in gathering 25 richly talented, intelligent and sensitive African American males to produce a compelling collection. . . . One that arrives at just the right time. --CLAUDE LEWIS, Philadelphia Inquirer [A] collective testimony bearing witness to the value of black cultural life. . . . Insightful. --ELIJAH…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 6/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Speak My Name



How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?



Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved My Head



The Night I Was Nobody



On Violence



Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (excerpt)



Albert Murray on Stage: An Interview



Mr. Brown and the Sweet Science



Playing Hardball (from Colored People)



On the Distinction of "Jr."



A Mighty Good Man



Shades



A Turn for the Worse



Go Home to Your Wife



My Mother and Mitch



A Liar in Love



The Sexual Diversion: The Black Man / Black Woman Debate in Context



Music, Darkrooms, and Cuba



Cool Brother (from Out of the Madness)



Palm Wine



The Black Family



Fade to Black: Once Upon a Time in Multiracial America



Where We Live: A Conversation with Essex Hemphill and Isaac Julien



Voodoo for Charles



The Black Man: Hero



Pain and Glory: Some Thoughts on My Father



Race, Rage, and Intellectual Development: A Personal Journey



Rickydoc: The Black Man as Hero



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