David Wall Rice is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Morehouse College.
David Wall Rice has written a fascinating book that adds a new
dimension to the scholarship on Black men. Not nearly enough study
has been done of Black male success, and Rice's analysis of how
Black males cope and thrive is an important contribution.
*Kevin Merida, managing editor of The Washington Post and co-author
of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas*
In this engaging and overdue work, David Wall Rice develops a
theoretical strategy for achieving more respectful and insightful
understandings of the situated dynamics and agendas of
identity-constitution and identity-maintenance—'identity statis'—of
African American male adolescents. With such understandings should
come recognition and appreciation of the positive accomplishments
and tremendous potential of this much maligned, often troubled, too
frequently at-risk segment of the U.S. American population.
*Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., professor of philosophy and director of
African American studies program, Vanderbilt University*
Balance signals the presence of a fresh voice in the field of
psychology and hip-hop culture. David Wall Rice is an intellectual
architect of the emerging post-modern engagement of culture studies
and the social sciences as they pertain to the African American
male experience and beyond. His work is richly informed and
authenticated by his immersion in the Morehouse College milieu and
offers important insight to all who read it. This is an important
book for our time.
*Robert M. Franklin, Jr., president of Morehouse College and author
of Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American
Communities*
This book presents a masterful discussion of the cultural and
racial identity of young African American males. Rice uses a
strengths-based approach to explore the concept of human identity
through group sessions with six African American male teenagers.
The author listens carefully to the voices of these young men as
they struggle for authenticity and balance in their lives as they
are consistently confronted by negative stereotypes of themselves.
Rice provides a valuable analysis of a group rarely understood by
most Americans.
*Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president, University of Maryland
Baltimore County*
The very survival of the black race in America turns on our ability
to address and arrest the metastasizing social crisis of the young
black male. David Wall Rice in his fine new book helps us to decode
and understand the identity issues that have formed at the core of
this dilemma, while having us take seriously the heavy
responsibility we must share for the safeguarding of our
future.
*founder and past president of TransAfrica and author of Quitting
America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land, Randall
Robinson, founder and past president of TransAfrica and author of
Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native
Land*
Identity-talk is hard talk. Rice offers us a provocative way of
tackling not only the difficult issues around identity formation,
he simultaneously reminds us—in a manner that is bold and
unflinching—of the tremendous power and resilience of African
American men. A wonderful contribution indeed!
*Eddie S. Glaude Jr., professor of religion, Princeton University
and author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of
Black America, author, "Democracy in Black: How Race Still
Enslaves the American Soul";William S. Tod Professor of Religion
and African American Studies, Princeton…*
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