Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
 

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (Vintage)

by Nathan Mc Call

Examining the complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an African-American journalist recalls his own troubled childhood, his rehabilitation while in prison, and his successful Washington Post career. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. (read review)

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Nikolay G
  • Rated 5 stars

This is a terrific book about a young black man in America and all the troubles that he had to go through. To express his feelings and emotions, the author used literary elements such as setting and point of view. The setting affected him in the fact that he lived in a normal neighborhood, but was surrounded by many older black men that have shaped a personality into him. Point of View was used to show that he was affected because he was a young man who looked on to others as examples, but...

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Katrina L. Burchett
  • Rated 2 stars

It's been a good while since I read this, but what I remember is being disgusted by it half way through because of certain content - treatment of females, mainly. About a year later my sister told me that she read it and that it gets better; in other words, Mr. McCall makes changes in his life. So I finished the book.

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  • Rated 4.14433 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

Newest Comments

  • Prof_Big

    prof_big said:

    Great coming of age story. It traces the route that one black man took from ignorance to knowledge of self.

    posted Friday, March 28 2008
  • locs

    locs said:

    I read this book many years ago I found it very enlightening, made you think about some of the things that a young black man has to go through.

    posted Saturday, October 20 2007
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