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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education
by Mychal Denzel Smith

    Publication Date: Jun 14, 2016
    List Price: $24.00
    Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781568585284
    Imprint: Bold Type Books
    Publisher: Hachette Book Group
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

    Hardcover Description:

    A New York Times Bestseller and 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: A Young Black Man’s Education, 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.



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