Black Boys Like Me by Matthew R. Morris (Paperback Book)

Name: Black Boys Like Me by Matthew R. Morris (Paperback Book)
Brand: Prentice Hall Press

Prentice Hall Press

Black Boys Like MeConfrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging\nAuthor(s): Matthew R. Morris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Group, United States\nImprint: Penguin Canada\nISBN-13: 9780735244603, 978-0735244603\nSynopsis\nWhat does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother, teaching in a school system that historically has held an exclusionary definition of success? In eight illuminating essays, Matthew R. Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and perception. After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the [url] on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing 'the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,' returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the .