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It features a wide-ranging interview with Bernard Lumpkin and Thelma Golden

We Real Cool: Black Men And Masculinity black dolls bell hooks notes the tiesWe Real Cool is bell hooks urgent and refreshingly untraditional take on Black men and masculinity. Black men, writes hooks, may be hated, feared, admired, or made the subject of sexual fantasy but they are rarely loved either by others or by themselves. In ten clear, thought provoking chapters, hooks discusses things many Black men fear (like an ability to engage with intimacy or meaningful relationships with their fathers, and longing for love).