White Boyz Blues

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.

Kenneth Lincoln grew up in northwest Nebraska, south of Wounded Knee, where his great-grandparents homesteaded along the North Platte River and ranching sand hills. He earned a degree in American literature at Stanford University and a doctorate in modern British literature at Indiana University,.