Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (A Young Black Man in America)
McCall, Nathan | Vintage Books USA
26,370원 | 19950201 | 9780679740704
Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison. He reported for theVirginian Pilot-Ledger Starand theAltanta Journal-Constitutionbefore moving toThe Washington Postin 1989.
"Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America....A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black man--and, by implication, many others."--The San Francisco Chronicle
"Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America....A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black man--and, by implication, many others."--The San Francisco Chronicle
A Young Black Man in America,Nathan McCall was a smart kid growing up in a,close, protective family in a black working-class,neighbourhood. Yet by the age of fifteen he was,packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career,that would five years later land him in prison. A,blistering chronicle of one man's struggle from,the street to the prison yard and ultimately to,the newsroom of 'the Washington Post' where he is,now a respected reporter. An honest and searching,look at the perils of the black male in the US.
In this "honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Washington Post" reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one of America's most prestigious papers. "A stirring tale of transformation".--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The New Yorker".
