Death on Canfield Drive -- The alchemists -- Before the fall -- Fall from grace -- The road to Damascus -- The chains of Blackness -- The one-drop legacy -- The forbidden fruit -- Tarnished angels -- Bloody shirts -- Fear and loathing -- The clown prince -- Killing the mockingbird -- The Starbucks syndrome -- Outside looking in -- The absent Black father "myth" -- Fake authenticity -- Self-destruction -- Sex war -- Generational loss -- Race war -- Prodigal sons -- The antidote -- Afterword.
Summary:
"Traces the collapse of the black community in America to an unexpected source: the anger against one's mother and father that fatherlessness engenders"--Provided by publisher.
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