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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.

Williams, Stanley Tookie.

Crips (Gang)--Biography.

Crips (Gang).

Gang members.

California--Los Angeles.

Gang members--California--Los Angeles--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Touchstone trade paperback edition, [posthumous edition].

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

"This posthumous edition ... features a foreword by Tavis Smiley and an epilogue by Barbara Becnel"--P. [4] of cover.

"A Touchstone book."

ISBN:

9781416544494

1416544496

OCLC:

122291349