{"title":"Alford A. Young, Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlford A. Young, Jr. offers profound insights into social issues with a focus on race, identity, and the challenges facing African American communities. His work challenges readers to engage critically with questions about societal structures and personal destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in education and reference, these books provide thoughtful analysis grounded in research and lived experience. Readers seeking to deepen their understanding of complex cultural and social dynamics will find his writing both compelling and illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"are-black-men-doomed-by-alford-a-young-jr-9781509522064","title":"Are Black Men Doomed?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a \"problem.\" For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has centred on what \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c\/i\u003e must do to improve their condition. Without neglecting that perspective, \u003ci\u003eAre Black Men Doomed?\u003c\/i\u003e radically shifts the focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis urgent intervention explores how a damning portrait of Black men as incorrigibly pernicious has been built and persists, and how the voice of these men themselves has been ignored. It astutely argues that improving the prospects for Black men requires that society fully come to terms with the narrow and incomplete vision it has sustained about these men. It then shows us the means to hear, understand, and value them, offering a new vision rooted in reinterpretation and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429946343660,"sku":"9781509522064","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509522064.jpg?v=1774559833"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alford-a-young-jr.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}