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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Description: One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.   In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring. For even as he recounts his transformatio ... (more)
Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 31 January 1994
ISBN-10 : 0679740708 | ISBN-13: 9780679740704
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