Book Description Still Invisible? is more than a narrative on the challenges facing Black males. After all, everyone recognizes there’s a problem, and another book simply highlighting those challenges does very little to address the issues at hand, contribute to meaningful and substantive dialogue or offer reasonable solutions on how to help make America better. What makes this book different from anything else you have ever read, however, is that it provides the reader with the tools and resources they need to factually contextualize the issues facing black men today, while not letting anyone off the hook for the problems we need to overcome–be they self-inflicted wounds or perpetrated by the state. Customers Review: This was a great book from beginning to end. A MUST READ!
Started reading the book tonight. Great so far!!
This compelling book provides a poignant account of what it means to be a Black man in America through first-person interviews, literature reviews, and statistical data. In it, Elvin Dowling also addresses widely held misconceptions about Black males and provides us with empirical evidence to help us reshape a false narrative. He discusses the topics of education, physical health, mental health, social mobility, media, the criminal justice system, unemployment, etc. But my favorite part is the “Prescription for Progress” section at the end of each chapter, which provides ideas about how each and every one of us can effect change on these salient issues.
Wow. What a source of encouragement and quite frankly, relief, this book is, especially in a time where so much socio injustice seems to deplete the African-American community of hope for better future. Brother Dowling not only addresses many detriments and threats to the well-being of the African-American male, but provides insight and examples of programs and methods that will provide solutions and healing to a people that has been seeking support and revitalization from the country that claims to be the greatest in the world, which can seem that way for the privileged, but often disregards the underserved.
What a great book able to take a different perspective A great learning vehicle |
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