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Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context. It not only frames their experiences, it also explores the multidimensional approaches to advancing the lives of Black men. Particular attention is given to placing Black men in their own unique historical, cultural, and socio-political contexts.
List of contents
Acknowledgments - Introduction: Trying to See Black Men and Boys - Black Male Culture - Black Males, Racial Identity, and Anti-Black Maleness - Black Males, Gender, Manhood, and Masculinities - Relationships and Intimacy - Black Men in Family and Community - The Education of Black Males - Black Men in Politics - Black Men in Economics - Black Males, Crime, and Justice - Black Male Health and Well-Being - A Final Note - Glossary - References - Index.
About the author
Serie McDougal, III is a professor in the Department of Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. in sociology from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Africana studies from the State University of New York at Albany, New York, and a Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Serie McDougal is also the co-director of the Afrometrics Research Institute.
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Theft of Self
To study in the dimming shadows of oversight one must learn to feel for truth
and manifest a practical faith
an even deeper study.
Then, one must endure the witnessing of discarded essential elements.
One must remember and remap their tombs,
to be regathered and reassembled,
to be righteously deposed.
Africana studies makes a long pass
through an ancient and angry valley
that has been known by many names.
An anthology of half-truths must be studied
and suffered
in the same life and body, by the wrighted one.
The thrash and burn of a treacherous sea
that smiles and bites with the same mouth
halved.
This journey calls a man with tenacity like Noah,
a wheelwright who contemplates in the storm
"The Theft of Self".
"Dr. Serie McDougal,
ON YOUR FEET!"
demands an admirable admiral.
-Orron Kenyetta, Poet, Author of "Outlasting Denial"
