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Author Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.

Title Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir / Stanley Tookie Williams.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster ; [Pleasant Hill, CA] : Published in conjunction with Damamli Pub., [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 WILLIAMS, STA    Check Shelf
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.
"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.
Crips (Gang) -- Biography.
Gang members -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
ISBN 9781416544494 paperback
1416544496 paperback
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