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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.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.1523 W675Bw 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed., [posthumous ed.].
Description xx, 384 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 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.
ISBN 1416544496
9781416544494
Standard No. AU@ 000041498358

 
    
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