Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

Description

A New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice How do
you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means
coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the
deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too
many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination
for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the
Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and
political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to
come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically
upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for
black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren’t considered taboo, and
feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks
in this book are urgent—for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the
Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nation Books; 1st edition (June 14, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 84
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #1,337,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3,700 in Black & African American Biographies #4,686 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) #35,812 in Memoirs (Books)
• #3,700 in Black & African American Biographies