If We Must Die : From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Boys in the Hood": Black Male Community in Richard Wright's Native Son -- 2 "It's a Man's World": Rethinking Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice in the Twenty-first Century -- 3 "Am I Black Enough for You?": Black Male Authenticity in Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America -- 4 Death Bound: The Thug Life -- 5 "How Does It Feel?": A Question of Life and Death in D'Angelo's "Untitled" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

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