Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. With a new afterword by the author |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
7-Eleven African Americans ain't asked Atlanta Atlanta Journal-Constitution baby Bampoose Bimbo black folks brothers called cats Cavalier Manor cellblock Charlie Gregg cops crazy Danny Debbie door downtown drug dudes Dwight eyes face feel fellas felt fight Frog fuck girls gonna gotten Greg guys hanging hard head heard hell Hosea Williams inmates inside jail jonin knew learned lived looked Malcolm X Mama Marvin Gaye Monroe mother motherfucka moved Muslims Nathan Nathan McCall neighborhood never newsroom niggah nigger night Norfolk Nutbrain parents Plaz Portsmouth prison pulled racism ride Roosevelt Boulevard scared Scobe seemed Shane Shell Shock shit shooting shot Southampton started stepfather stood story street Superfly talked tell things thought told took tried trying turned walked wanna wanted watched white boys white folks wondered Yeah