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bell hooks

“Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.”

bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks
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