Herb Boyd and Robert Allen, Editors
A strong man has a strong challenge. We only know his strength by the challenged faced. Testosterone is based on the test. Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America. The purpose of this extraordinary anthology is made abundantly clear by the editors’ stated intention: “to create a living mosaic of essays and stories in which Black men can view themselves, and be viewed without distortion.” Brotherman contains more than one hundred and fifty selections, from slave narratives, memoirs, social histories, novels, poems, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, position papers, and essays.
A Son in the Family–Of Fathers and Sons: Quincy Troupe, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Henry Louis Gates, Wesley Brown, Louis Edwards, Earl Ofari Hutchnson, Nick Childs, Haki Madhubuti
Boyz ‘n the Hood: William Demby, Claude Brown, William Melvin Kelley, Henry Dumas, Amiri Baraka, Jess Mowry, Jabari Asim, Kevin Powell, Yusef Salaam, Michael Eric Dyson, Roland Gilbert/Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor
When a Man Loves a Woman: Robert Fleming, Charles Johnson, Charles Chestnutt, Arthur Flowers, James Alan McPherson, Trey Ellis, Chester Himes, Calvin C. Hernton, Richard Perry, Walter Mosley, Clarence Major
What’s Love Got to Do with It: Gerald Early, Edward Jones, Ron Stodghill, II, Alexs D. Pate, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Damu Hakim, Nathan McCall, Ralph Wiley
My Brother’s Keeper: Rudolph Fisher, Sylvester Monroe, Playthell Benjamin, Kenneth Meeks, E. Lynn Harris, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, W. J. Brandy Moore, Ernest Gaines
Trouble Man: Claude McKay, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Albert French, Gordon Parks, William Strickland, Brent Staples, Ernest Allen, Jr., Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, Derrick Bell
Fighting on Two Fronts: David Levering Lewis, John Oliver Killens, Robert L. Allen, Martin Luther King, Jr., Wallace Terry, Clyde Taylor
Locked In and Locked Out: Albert Race Sample, Lloyd L. Brown, Robert Chrisman, John Edgar Wideman, Nathan McCall, Jarvis Masters, Arthur Hamilton, Jr. and William Banks, Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Color and Class: Walter White, Langston Hughes, Willard Motley, Stanley Crouch, Ronald E. Hall, Hosea Hudson, William Attaway, Sam Greenlee, Brent Wade, Shelby Steele, Ellis Cose, Stephen Carter
Black Magic: Countee Cullen, Wallace Thurman, Julius Luster
We Wear the Mask: Ishmael Reed, Cecil Brown, Mel Watkins, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee with Ralph Wiley
In the Game: Jackie Robinson, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Harry Edwards, Jim Brown, Charlie Sifford, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Satchel Paige
Be-Bop, Doo-Wap, Hip Hop: Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Nelson George, Alston Anderson, Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Nathaniel Mackey, Greg Tate, Quincy Jones, Ice T
Sankofa: Past as Prologue: Dudley Randall, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, John Henrik Clarke, J. A. Rogers, John Hope Franklin, Alex Haley, Nathan Hare
No Justice, No Peace: Charles V. Hamilton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, James Foreman, Bobby Seale, Samuel Yette, John A. Williams, William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Richard Majors, Jesse Jackson, Manning Marable, Louis Farrakhan, Randall Robinson, Kweisi Mfume
Black Gold: Earl G. Graves, John H. Johnson with Lerone Bennett, Jr., Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill, George C. Fraser
Return to the Source: Reginald McKnight, Maulana Karenga, Molefi Kete Asante, Eric Cpage, James E. Jackson, Cornel West, Herb Boyd
Epilogue: Sterling Brown
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