Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Jan 2011 · Sold by Vintage
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NATIONAL 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
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
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4.9
39 reviews
Sean Angell
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March 7, 2021
Read this book in 8th grade English class. Def a good representation on how low times can be or get, there's always hope I'm the end.
Lynn Mccleary
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February 25, 2019
rI read this book in 1999, up to this day I still make referece to this book . Its well written. This book will give you a clear understanding all thw wau up to whats going pn today.
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Jay Cherry
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July 24, 2017
Absolutely beautiful, brutally honest account of what it's like being a black man in America. I identified so closely with Nathan McCall's story that at times it was like reading about my life. I am a fan for life and recommend this book to EVERY black man.
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About the author
Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University after serving three years in prison, and went on to report for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before joining The Washington Post in 1989. He is the author of a memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler; an essay collection, What’s Going On; and a novel, Them. McCall is currently is a senior lecturer in African American Studies at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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