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Author:

Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed., [posthumous ed.].

Publisher:

Published in conjunction with Damamli Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xx, 384 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Williams, Stanley Tookie,--1953-2005.
Crips (Gang)--Biography.
Gang members--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

1416544496
9781416544494

LCCN:

2007011583

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)