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Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir

Title
Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir / Stanley Tookie Williams.
Author
Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster ; [Pleasant Hill, CA] : Published in conjunction with Damamli Pub., c2007.

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Description
xx, 384 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005
  • Crips (Gang) > Biography
  • Gang members > California > Los Angeles > Biography
  • African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Biography
Note
  • "This posthumous edition ... features a foreword by Tavis Smiley and an epilogue by Barbara Becnel"--P. [4] of cover.
  • "A Touchstone book."
Contents
Born in the bayou -- South Central -- Sibling feud -- Hallelujah, hallelujah -- The art of Dys-education -- Voodoo medicine -- Stepfamily -- Adolescent blues -- Point of no return -- The institutional shuffle -- Seeds of a gang -- Crip walk -- The Criplettes -- Tookie's law -- Boys Republic to Factor Brookins -- Mr. Buddha! Mr. Buddha! -- Compton ambassador -- Straddling the fence -- Invincibility shot down -- The big comeback -- The old stomping ground -- Float on, float on, float on -- Schemes and things -- Living the funk -- The longest day -- Rage of another kind -- The missing years -- Inside the beast -- Things happen -- Change will come -- Trials, tribulations -- Let there be light -- Human angel -- Moto ndani (the fire within) -- Redemption-- step forward -- A woman called Mother Africa -- Black phoenix rising -- Sons of the father.
Call Number
Sc E 12-62
ISBN
  • 9781416544494
  • 1416544496
LCCN
2007011583
OCLC
122291349
Author
Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.
Title
Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir / Stanley Tookie Williams.
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster ; [Pleasant Hill, CA] : Published in conjunction with Damamli Pub., c2007.
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed., [posthumous ed.].
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Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 12-62
Sc E 08-971
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