Kevin Powell
â€œA mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examinationâ€”and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscapeâ€”is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.â€,â€”Michael Eric Dyson,â€œKevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness.â€, â€”Nikki Giovanni,In three mind-jolting essays by one of the most passionate and eloquent voices of his generation, ,Whoâ€™s Gonna Take the Weight?, by Kevin Powell leads us to the heart of the searing issues facing us today, from manhood, violence, and gender oppression to celebrity culture and hip-hop. Using compelling personal stories as the connecting thread, he examines what this nation has become since the monumental upheavals of the 1960s and where it might be headed if weâ€™re not careful.,Written one hundred years after W.E.B. DuBoisâ€™s ,The Souls of Black Folk, and forty years after James Baldwinâ€™s ,The Fire Next Time,, ,Whoâ€™s Gonna Take the Weight?, is an impassioned witness to the burning problems that have accompanied us on our journey through the twenty-first century.,From the Trade Paperback edition.
Gender,Nonfiction,Cultural,African American
Who's Gonna Take the Weight:  Manhood, Race, and Power in America