The Envy of the World
Subtitle: On Being a Black Man in America
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780743428170
Subjects: Black studies; Nonfiction - General; Men's Studies - General; Social Science; Nonfiction; Sociology; USA; Psychology; Non-Classifiable; Current Events / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African American men; Attitudes; Social conditions
First sentence: Let me begin this section with a simple assertion: Black men are not an "endangered species," not in the sense of, say, the peregrine falcon or the bog turtle, whose long-term existences on Earth are in question.