With insight and passion, Bell Hooks challenges the way that the focus of masculine identity has emerged as the critics' favoured answer to the crisis of black politics.
America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968.
"This book presents the LIST Paradigm to help educators "unlock" literature with four keys to culture: Language, Identity, Space, and Time. The text includes teaching strategies, classroom examples, and texts by writers of color"--