Makes Me Wanna Holler

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A Young Black Man in America Nathan McCall was a smart kid growing up in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighbourhood. Yet by the age of fifteen he was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that would five years later land him in prison. A blistering chronicle of one man's struggle from the street to the prison yard and ultimately to the newsroom of 'The Washington Post' where he is now a respected reporter. An honest and searching look at the perils of the black male in the US.

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"Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America....A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black manand, by implication, many others."The San Francisco Chronicle

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Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia.He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison, and went on to report for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Starand theAtlanta Journal-Constitutionbefore joiningThe Washington Postin 1989. He is the author of a memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler; an essay collection, What's Going On; and a novel, Them. McCall is currently is a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.