Makes Me Wanna Holler
A Young Black Man in America
$37.51
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
31 January 1995
Summary
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One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.
In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679740704 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679740708 |
| Author: | Nathan McCall |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 1995 |
| Weight: | 311g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 130mm |
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Critics Review
“Not since Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest 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.“–The San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Nathan McCall
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 a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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