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To Be Black in America Is to Walk with Fury

Part of A Vintage Short

Author Nathan McCall
Ebook
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Feb 23, 2016 | 32 Pages | 9781101973523
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
 
Twenty years ago, the publication of Nathan McCall’s groundbreaking memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler chronicled a black man’s passage from a life on the block to the prison yards to a journalism career that led to The Washington Post. McCall’s survival had been an act of defiance against a culture and political system designed to keep black men down. Today, from the halls of a revered university, McCall gives thought to how many white Americans remain conditioned to racial blindness and can’t see their way out. Our country’s promise of equality continues to ring hollow, as young black men are murdered on our streets and constrained behind bars in astonishing numbers.
 
In this timely, intimate essay, Nathan McCall reflects on what it means to stand tall and fashion life on one’s own terms, and urges us to recognize that what will make America great is not growing its wealth or might overseas, but doing right by its people at home.
 
An eBook short.
Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison, and went on to report for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before joining The Washington Post in 1989. He is the author of a memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler; an essay collection, What’s Going On; and a novel, Them. McCall is currently is a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. View titles by Nathan McCall
Praise for Nathan McCall and Makes Me Wanna Holler:

"Sooner of later, every generation must find its voice. It may be that ours belongs to Nathan McCall, whose memoir is...a stirring tale of transformation. He is a mesmerizing storyteller." --Henry Lous Gates, Jr., The New Yorker

"Angry, eloquent, and powerful... a relentlessly honest book filled with pain, triumph, rage and humor, high and low." --Los Angeles Times Book Review 

"So honest, so well-written, so powerful that it will leave you shaken and educated. The book belongs in every prison library and affluent country club. No one--black or white, rich or poor--will come away unrewarded." --USA Today

"Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honesyt 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." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Soul-searing...an unsettling account of the human consequences of an American tragedy." --Time

"Both poignant and disturbing...Makes Me Wanna Holler has the feel of a classic...There is value and depth to what [McCall] reveals. And, above all, there is two-fisted honesty, unflinching in its recognition of the multifaceted dynamic of America's unmitigated neurosis...Obscene, fiery, in-you-face [and] utterly believable" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"With great technical skill and insight, McCall...shows the humanity of a population commonly perceived as menacing....And, he offers sane, well-reasoned explanations for why that group seems to be at the center of so much urban distress....Required reading for anyone interested in American race relations." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Makes Me Wanna Holler will become a modern classic. It is Manchild in the Promised Land for a new generation." --Claude Brown

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A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
 
Twenty years ago, the publication of Nathan McCall’s groundbreaking memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler chronicled a black man’s passage from a life on the block to the prison yards to a journalism career that led to The Washington Post. McCall’s survival had been an act of defiance against a culture and political system designed to keep black men down. Today, from the halls of a revered university, McCall gives thought to how many white Americans remain conditioned to racial blindness and can’t see their way out. Our country’s promise of equality continues to ring hollow, as young black men are murdered on our streets and constrained behind bars in astonishing numbers.
 
In this timely, intimate essay, Nathan McCall reflects on what it means to stand tall and fashion life on one’s own terms, and urges us to recognize that what will make America great is not growing its wealth or might overseas, but doing right by its people at home.
 
An eBook short.

Author

Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison, and went on to report for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before joining The Washington Post in 1989. He is the author of a memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler; an essay collection, What’s Going On; and a novel, Them. McCall is currently is a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. View titles by Nathan McCall

Praise

Praise for Nathan McCall and Makes Me Wanna Holler:

"Sooner of later, every generation must find its voice. It may be that ours belongs to Nathan McCall, whose memoir is...a stirring tale of transformation. He is a mesmerizing storyteller." --Henry Lous Gates, Jr., The New Yorker

"Angry, eloquent, and powerful... a relentlessly honest book filled with pain, triumph, rage and humor, high and low." --Los Angeles Times Book Review 

"So honest, so well-written, so powerful that it will leave you shaken and educated. The book belongs in every prison library and affluent country club. No one--black or white, rich or poor--will come away unrewarded." --USA Today

"Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honesyt 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." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Soul-searing...an unsettling account of the human consequences of an American tragedy." --Time

"Both poignant and disturbing...Makes Me Wanna Holler has the feel of a classic...There is value and depth to what [McCall] reveals. And, above all, there is two-fisted honesty, unflinching in its recognition of the multifaceted dynamic of America's unmitigated neurosis...Obscene, fiery, in-you-face [and] utterly believable" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"With great technical skill and insight, McCall...shows the humanity of a population commonly perceived as menacing....And, he offers sane, well-reasoned explanations for why that group seems to be at the center of so much urban distress....Required reading for anyone interested in American race relations." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Makes Me Wanna Holler will become a modern classic. It is Manchild in the Promised Land for a new generation." --Claude Brown

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