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This penetrating and honest reflection is three decades in the making and one can feel the steady march of thought moving the prescient analysis forward. This account is at once unsettling, thought provoking, and necessary for our time. Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University In this thoughtful and important book, Alford Young calls upon us to not only rethink our collective sentiment about Black males, but to take a more thorough account of how they view themselves as well. A must-read. William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Are Black Men Doomed? presents a cohesive, thoughtful call to reconsider societal narratives and beliefs surrounding black men ... (It) offers new insights that will help lead to a better world for black men. Men and Masculinities

In this thoughtful and important book, Alford Young draws upon his years of research to provide an illuminating discussion of society's portrait of black males and response to them. Informed by his findings, he calls upon us to not only rethink our collective sentiment about these men, but to take a more thorough account of how they view themselves as well. Young's Are Black Men Doomed? is a must-read. William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Alford Young Jr. brings together all his skills and experience as a social scientist to weave this penetrating and honest reflection on black men in America. Are Black Men Doomed? not only illuminates the perspectives of these persons, but it forces us to recognize the particular and peculiar way in which the discourse around black men has formed in the US. This book is three-decades in the making and one can feel the steady march of thought moving the prescient analysis forward. This account is at once unsettling, thought provoking and necessary for our time. Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University

In this thoughtful and important book, Alford Young draws upon his years of research to provide an illuminating discussion of society's portrait of black males and response to them. Informed by his findings, he calls upon us to not only rethink our collective sentiment about these men, but to take a more thorough account of how they view themselves as well. Young's Are Black Men Doomed? is a must-read. William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Alford Young Jr. brings together all his skills and experience as a social scientist to weave this penetrating and honest reflection on black men in America. Are Black Men Doomed? not only illuminates the perspectives of these persons, but it forces us to recognize the particular and peculiar way in which the discourse around black men has formed in the US. This book is three-decades in the making and one can feel the steady march of thought moving the prescient analysis forward. This account is at once unsettling, thought provoking and necessary for our time. Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University

"""This penetrating and honest reflection is three decades in the making and one can feel the steady march of thought moving the prescient analysis forward. This account is at once unsettling, thought provoking, and necessary for our time.""  Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University  ""In this thoughtful and important book, Alford Young calls upon us to not only rethink our collective sentiment about Black males, but to take a more thorough account of how they view themselves as well. A must-read.""  William Julius Wilson, Harvard University ""Are Black Men Doomed? presents a cohesive, thoughtful call to reconsider societal narratives and beliefs surrounding black men … (It) offers new insights that will help lead to a better world for black men."" Men and Masculinities ""Insightful and thought-provoking […]. Drawing on decades of research, experience, and narratives of black men and boys […,] Young provides a generative new template for continued scholarship and debate on effective ways to improve the conditions and outcomes of black men and boys."" Marcus A. Hunter, Contemporary Sociology"

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Alford A. Young, Jr. is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

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