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A monumental work on urban black masculinity, carefully engaging classic literature such as Richard Wright's Native Son and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice in dialectic with the phenomenal musical performances of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and D'Angelo. --Kermit E. Campbell author of Gettin' Our Groove On (Wayne State University Press, 2005) One of the 25 overlooked political books of 2011.--The Huffington Post If We Must Die offers engaging ideas and issues regarding the interplay among urban black men, racial terror, and death-oriented standpoints. If We Must Die is a dynamic contribution to the burgeoning field of black gender studies.-- (04/01/2014) If We Must Die is a superbly nuanced exploration into black popular culture's obsession with poor, urban-dwelling black men as simultaneously death-defiant and death-bound. Ellis presents an exciting new take on contemporary literary and mediated treatments of black masculinity and mortality, uncovering representations of agency, spectacle, and subversive opposition to dominant culture.--Robin R. Means Coleman

A monumental work on urban black masculinity, carefully engaging classic literature such as Richard Wright's Native Son and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice in dialectic with the phenomenal musical performances of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and D'Angelo.--Kermit E. Campbell author of Gettin' Our Groove On (Wayne State University Press, 2005) One of the 25 overlooked political books of 2011.-- The Huffington Post If We Must Die offers engaging ideas and issues regarding the interplay among urban black men, racial terror, and death-oriented standpoints. If We Must Die is a dynamic contribution to the burgeoning field of black gender studies.--Treva B. Lindsey The Journal of Afriacn American History (4/1/2014 12:00:00 AM) If We Must Die is a superbly nuanced exploration into black popular culture's obsession with poor, urban-dwelling black men as simultaneously death-defiant and death-bound. Ellis presents an exciting new take on contemporary literary and mediated treatments of black masculinity and mortality, uncovering representations of agency, spectacle, and subversive opposition to dominant culture.-- Robin R. Means Coleman

A monumental work on urban black masculinity, carefully engaging classic literature such as Richard Wright's Native Son and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice in dialectic with the phenomenal musical performances of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and D'Angelo. --Kermit E. Campbell author of Gettin' Our Groove On (Wayne State University Press, 2005) One of the 25 overlooked political books of 2011.--The Huffington Post If We Must Die is a superbly nuanced exploration into black popular culture's obsession with poor, urban-dwelling black men as simultaneously death-defiant and death-bound. Ellis presents an exciting new take on contemporary literary and mediated treatments of black masculinity and mortality, uncovering representations of agency, spectacle, and subversive opposition to dominant culture.--Robin R. Means Coleman If We Must Die offers engaging ideas and issues regarding the interplay among urban black men, racial terror, and death-oriented standpoints. If We Must Die is a dynamic contribution to the burgeoning field of black gender studies.-- (04/01/2014)

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Aimé J. Ellis was an associate professor of English and core faculty in African and African American studies at Michigan State University until his death in 2009.

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