Edition |
First Touchstone trade paperback edition, [posthumous edition]. |
Description |
xx, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
"This posthumous edition ... features a foreword by Tavis Smiley and an epilogue by Barbara Becnel"--P. [4] of cover. |
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"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. |
Subject |
Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.
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Crips (Gang) -- Biography.
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Gang members -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
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African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
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ISBN |
9781416544494 paperback |
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1416544496 paperback |
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