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If We Must Die
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Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-23
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  1. 1. “Boys in the Hood”: Black Male Community in Richard Wright’s Native Son
  2. pp. 23-42
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  1. 2. “It’s a Man’s World”: Rethinking Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice in the Twenty-first Century
  2. pp. 43-62
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  1. 3. “Am I Black Enough for You?”: Black Male Authenticity in Nathan McCall’s Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
  2. pp. 63-90
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  1. 4. Death Bound: The Thug Life
  2. pp. 91-122
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  1. 5. “How Does It Feel?”: A Question of Life and Death in D’Angelo’s “Untitled”
  2. pp. 123-142
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 143-174
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 175-188
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 189-213
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