Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream

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 ANDERSON, The New York Times Book ReviewAn honest, important book.--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBrilliant, bold . . . Speak My Name does for black men what Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale and the Delaney sisters' priceless Having Our Say have done for black women.--JAMES EARL HARDY, The Advocate