num_pages: 224
description: Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching is an account of how politically and culturally the existing script for black manhood has been rewritten for the millennial generation. Young men of this age have watched as Barack Obama was elected president but have also witnessed the deaths of Oscar Grant Trayvon Martin Michael Brown Akai Gurley and so many other young black men killed by police or vigilante violence. Chronicling his personal and political education during these tumultuous years Smith narrates his own coming-of-age story and his struggles to come into his own at a time when too many black men do not survive into adulthood.From Barack Obamas landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 to the recent and widely reported cases of violence against women from powerful moments of black self-determination like LeBron James decision to the mobilization of thousands of young black men in the wake of Trayvon Martins death Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching documents of how these public milestones have challenged cultural notions of black manhood. Part memoir part political tract this book is an unprecedented and intimate glimpse into what it means to be young black and male in America todayand what it means to be treated as a human in a society dependent on your subjugation.
language: English
title: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
publisher: Nation Books