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Street-gang and tribal-warrior autobiographies / H. David Brumble.

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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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