Makes Me Wanna Holler
A Young Black Man in America
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4.8 • 82 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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
Customer Reviews
A true eye opener
I’ve had this book since I was in college and never took the time to read it. I finally decided I was going to read it and I loved every chapter of the book!
Great read!
More relevant now than ever!
Insightful
I was told of this book from a male friend at first i thought it was merely geared towards the black man in America but as i read along i gain a lot of insight from this novel. Just being able to understand what our brothers went through and are still going through made me appreciate the Black king even more. Great read!!!