Man Up! Nobody is Coming to Save Us

by Steve Perry

Man Up! is a hard hitting, hig, introspective look into what the Black community must do to save itself. Finally, a voice speaks to the complex relationship between personal and community responsibility. Steve Perry effectively calls to task organizations such as the NAACP and the Black church as well as talking heads like Michael Eric Dyson and Cornell West for their role in the retardation of the Black community. Ultimately Man Up! is about the simple solutions offered in each chapter.

Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

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Steven Carl Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.

Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West

Reviews

[Shadowblk · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I can't remotely say that I agree with everything he says, I think that his book contains ideas worth implementing and discussing. Written by a person that is walking his talk, Mr. Perry may oversimplify issues, but sometimes that is what is necessary in order to not become paralyzed by the complexity and size of the task into inactivity. He is correct in his assertion that the time to act is NOW.

However, we do need to get much deeper into WHY things are the way they are in order to better understand how to change the circumstances on more than a surface level.

[Jason J · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought the book was amazing. Not necessarily because it was anything profound or extremely insightful, but because I needed to hear it. I needed to hear it. I am a young African American male attending a prestigious University (white school) who was floundering for the last couple of months, even though I am in the 4th year of a 5 year Bachelor's/Master's program. Read this book in one sitting today. This capped my long journey back to the road of progress.

[Ron Lohrbach · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading in parallel with Bill Crosby's book on the same theme for balance.