If we must die [electronic resource] : from Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls / Aime J. Ellis.
Series: African American lifePublication details: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2011.Description: ix, 213 p. : illISBN:- 9780814334133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 081433413X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780814336656 (e-book)
- African American men -- Social conditions
- African American men -- Psychology
- Masculinity -- Social aspects -- United States
- Death -- Social aspects -- United States
- Masculinity -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Death -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Racism -- United States -- History
- State-sponsored terrorism -- United States -- History
- African American men in popular culture
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- 305.38/896073 22
- E185.86 .E436 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Boys in the hood" : Black male community in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It's a man's world" : rethinking Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on ice in the twenty-first century -- "Am I black enough for you?" : Black male authenticity in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America -- Death bound : the thug life -- "How does it feel?" : a question of life and death in D'Angelo's "Untitled."
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