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Street-gang and tribal-warrior autobiographies / H. David Brumble.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brumble, H. David, III, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Biography--History and criticism.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Anthem Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Stories Warriors Tell is about the eerie similarities between the autobiographies that have come to us from warrior tribes and street gangs. Gangbangers were so far alienated from the larger society that they re-invented something very like tribal warrior cultures at the right heart of American cities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- To drink of death : Tukup's head-hunter autobiography and the characteristics of tribal-warrior autobiography
- The kinds of street-gang autobiography
- The bubble reputation : honor, glory and status among the warriors
- Glory manifest : coup tales, warrior boasts and gangsta rap
- Brutal honesty
- The education of the warrior
- The warrior choice
- Mona Ruiz's two badges : women warriors and warriors' women
- Sam Blowsnake and the unfortunate Pottawatomie
- The gangbanger autobiography of Monster Kody (AKA Sanyika Shakur)
- Battle, raid and stratagem
- Berserkers and the tragedy of warrior individualism.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783087839
- 1783087838
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