Book Review: We Real Cool Black Men And Masculinity

Module Code: CRM3500
Module Name: Violent Crime: Violence, Sex & Punishment
Module Leader: Emma Milne
Student Number: M00549909
Assignment Title: Book Review:
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity.
Department of Criminology & Sociology
School of Law

Book Review: We Real Cool: Black men and Masculinity by Bell Hooks.

We real cool: Black Men and Masculinity by Bell Hook’s is a book that explains the hardships of being a black male in the United States and what black males endure because America is a white culture. She suggests that because America is a white culture, it does not love black males and teaches black males to especially not love themselves. Throughout the book, Hook’s suggests that black males are forced to hold back within …show more content…
Nearing the end of the book, from chapter 8 – 10 Hooks talks about solutions about how black males can help liberate themselves from a white – supremacist patriarchy society that victimizes them. she was successful with educating people about the racism and discrimination that black males faced in America also, she was encouraging because she was, able to project hope and that change can happen if people raise these issues and discuss them. " No matter how broken, how lost we are, we can be found. Our wounded souls are never beyond repair" (Hooks, 2004, p. 152). This is unlike Ellis Cose’s book The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America whom Hooks critiqued in the preface of her book because although he addressed many of the issues black men face in America, “he offers no vision of how black males might create new and different self-concepts” (Hooks, 2004). Saying this, this book is a great contribution to the field of racism and discrimination because Hooks really critically analyses the issues that still affect black males and also hard topics that others have not talked about in their books, like the issue on mental health as she discusses in chapter 7 and she really made people aware of this issue and how it affects young black males and shapes their views on …show more content…
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Hooks, B. (2004). We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge, p. 1 - 15.
Hooks, B. (2004). We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge, p. 1.
Hooks, B. (2004). We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge, p. 4.
Hooks, B. (2004). We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge, p. 152.
Hooks, B. (2004). We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge, p. 1 - 15.
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