Black Men’s Studies

Serie McDougal, III is a professor in the Department of Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. in sociology from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Africana studies from the State University of New York at Albany, New York, and a Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Serie McDougal is also the co-director of the Afrometrics Research Institute.

Theft of SelfTo study in the dimming shadows of oversight one must learn to feel for truthand manifest a practical faithan even deeper study.Then, one must endure the witnessing of discarded essential elements.One must remember and remap their tombs,to be regathered and reassembled,to be righteously deposed.Africana studies makes a long passthrough an ancient and angry valleythat has been known by many names.An anthology of half-truths must be studiedand sufferedin the same life and body, by the wrighted one.The thrash and burn of a treacherous seathat smiles and bites with the same mouthhalved.This journey calls a man with tenacity like Noah,a wheelwright who contemplates in the storm“The Theft of Self”.“Dr. Serie McDougal,ON YOUR FEET!”demands an admirable admiral.—Orron Kenyetta, Poet, Author of “Outlasting Denial”

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Trying to See Black Men and Boys – Black Male Culture – Black Males, Racial Identity, and Anti-Black Maleness – Black Males, Gender, Manhood, and Masculinities – Relationships and Intimacy – Black Men in Family and Community – The Education of Black Males – Black Men in Politics – Black Men in Economics – Black Males, Crime, and Justice – Black Male Health and Well-Being – A Final Note – Glossary – References – Index.