Esquire’s ‘American boy’ isn’t racist, but it isn’t insightful, either

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Esquire magazine sparked controversy for featuring on its cover, during Black History Month, a white male.

The manly man’s magazine, struggling to reinvent itself for the postmodern bro, titled its cover story “An American boy: What it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country.”

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