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Black Boys Like Me
- Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
Engelsk Paperback
Black Boys Like Me
- Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
Engelsk Paperback

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What does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother, teaching in a school system that historically has held an exclusionary definition of success? In eight illuminating essays, Matthew R. Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and perception. After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing ''the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,'' returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him - his parents, coaches, and teachers - received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self. With the wide-reaching scope of Desmond Cole''s The Skin We re In and the introspective snapshot of life in Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Boys Like Me is an unflinching debut that invites readers to create braver spaces and engage in crucial conversations around race and belonging.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780735244603
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
073524460X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
31 dec 2024
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
132mm
Højde:
203mm
Forlag:
Prentice Hall Press
Oplagsdato:
31 dec 2024
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