| Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America Contributor(s): McCall, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679740708 ISBN-13: 9780679740704 Publisher: Vintage Books USA OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: In this "honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "Washington Post" reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one of America's most prestigious papers. "A stirring tale of transformation".--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The New Yorker". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Social Science | Men's Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93030654 |
| Lexile Measure: 950 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.26" W x 8.08" (0.71 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12388 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 29.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles--and the great hopes--of our nation. With a new afterword by the author |