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The statistics about young Black men are familiar: Homicide is their number one killer, one fourth are in jail, on parole, or on probation, and their rates of unemployment, teen fatherhood, educational dropout - and death - exceed those of any other demographic group. Moreover, in the public mind, even those who don't bear out the grim statistics have come to embody society's worst pathologies.
Yet, when given the opportunity to speak for themselves, they speak of feeling as fearful as they are feared, as threatened as they are threatening.
Living to Tell About It is the first book to look beyond statistics and perceptions to the real lives and experiences of most young Black men in America today. Over the course of a year, journalist Darrell Dawsey traveled across the country, listening to a mosaic of young men talk about their childhoods, relationships with parents and women, sexuality, self-respect, spirituality, ambitions, the race that binds them, and the diversity of class, education and geography that distinguishes them.
Interweaving interview material with powerful reflections of his own background as a single-parent child of urban America and a young father, Dawsey portrays the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of young Black men in a society in which they have been the targets of disenfranchisement, neglect, racism, and hostility. The result is a compelling portrait of a generation facing the manifold challenges and dilemmas of Black manhood - and living to tell about it.
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Living to Tell About It: Young Black Men in America Speak
January 20, 1997, Anchor
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Living to tell about it: young Black men in America speak their piece
1997, Anchor Books
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Living to tell about it: young black men in America speak their piece.
1996, Anchor Books
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Living to tell about it: young Black men in America speak their piece
1996, Anchor Books
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