White Boyz Blues

By Kenneth Lincoln

A memoir of a father's pain, humor, and healing as he learns to embrace a new masculinity "down West."

How does a white male, raised in the hardscrabble culture of the West, learn to raise a young daughter on his own? In this unconventional memoir, contemporary Native American scholar Kenneth Lincoln relates his struggle to embrace a new masculinity in the late twentieth century. Through a poignant combination of poems, letters, and his own unique voice, Lincoln shares the story of his life-the death of family and close friends, love, divorce, depression, and through it all, the headstrong daughter who becomes the center of his world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
• Release date: Oct 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781933108773

Kenneth Lincoln

Kenneth Lincoln is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of A Writer's China (1999), Men Down West (1997), Indi'n Humor (1993), The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America (1987), and Native American Renaissance (1983).

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