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Ghetto Bastard: The Beginning

Author : K'WAN
Publisher : Write 2 Eat Concepts, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Bastard: The Beginning written by K'WAN and published by Write 2 Eat Concepts, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to the children that the world throws away? They become Animals. Tayshawn Torres is a child born in the slums and cursed by the sins of his parents. His mother is a notorious drug addict and whore, more concerned with getting her next high than she is with his well-being. His stepfather hates him so much, that he literally treats him like an animal. Tayshawn is forced to sleep in a cage and scavenge for scraps of food wherever he can find them. Because of his squalid appearance, he is also the object of ridicule by all of the neighborhood kids who have given him the nickname, Animal. The only person to ever show him even the slightest bit of kindness is his older brother, Justice. Justice keeps him out of harm's way the best he can. However, when Justice is taken from his life, Tayshawn finds he is alone in the streets. With his guardian angel gone, he is now at the mercy of the world Justice tried to protect him from. Tayshawn quickly learns that if he is to survive the jungle, he will have to adapt. Love and companionship constantly elude Tayshawn, but death and heartache cling to him like a second skin. Gradually, the layers of the frightened child he had been are stripped away until there is nothing left of Tayshawn, and all that remains is, Animal.

Ghetto Bastard

Author : Russell Vann
Publisher : Russell Dynasty LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780999154007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Bastard written by Russell Vann and published by Russell Dynasty LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society has labeled babies born between 1961 and 1982 Generation X. But in 1968, in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, which was one of the most dope-infested areas of the world, they donned another moniker. Right across the bridge from Harlem, in the glory days of notorious drug kingpins such as Nicky Barns and Frank Lucas, children born in this section were known as Generation Next, because no one looked at those babies and asked: "Who's going to be a doctor? Lawyer? Politician? Business man? Real estate tycoon?" Instead they wondered: Which of these babies is the next dope fiend? The next dope dealer? The next one to go to prison? The next unwed teenage mother? The odds of one of these children, a Gen Next, surviving their circumstances undamaged were on par with the journey of sperm to egg: three hundred million are in the race, but only one makes it to the target. Ghetto Bastard is a story of survival. Malik was born into these circumstances-with no father to teach him how to be a man, and to a mother that didn't want him. Malik must navigate his way to adulthood with only the streets as his guide-through the seventies heroin infestation, the eighties crack rage, and the nineties Clinton mass incarceration era and AIDS epidemic. Once he becomes a man, his vision broadens, but will it be enough to abandon the very ghetto that created him? Ghetto Bastard is the intimate journey of an innocent child in search of love and self-worth. He just wants what we all want. And Malik Russell wasn't born with any quit, so he's got that going for him, but neither was his opponent: the ghetto.

Memoir of a Ghetto Bastard

Author : William "Unique" Battle
Publisher : Travelin' Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780578943565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Memoir of a Ghetto Bastard written by William "Unique" Battle and published by Travelin' Light Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MEMOIR WRITTEN TO PROMOTE CHANGE AND TO ENCOURAGE READERS TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF REPEATED CYCLES.

GHETTO-LOGIK

Author : Jerome ?Guydance? Jewet
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466985704
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis GHETTO-LOGIK by : Jerome ?Guydance? Jewet

Download or read book GHETTO-LOGIK written by Jerome ?Guydance? Jewet and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a parallel universe. Therefore, wherever there s an upscale neighborhood, there must be a ghetto; and if there is a ghetto, then there is a need for my Ghetto-Logik. This book is the Brooklyn Bridge that connects da hood to lavish neighborhoods. We, as human beings, were designed with identical spiritual, mental, and physical features, along with the divine gift of free will. However, some of us do not fully understand the grandness of our divine privileges, so we subconsciously live our lives less abundant than our original intent or choose not to exercise our gifts, talents, and abilities awarded to us by God. "

And It Don't Stop

Author : Raquel Cepeda
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466810467
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis And It Don't Stop by : Raquel Cepeda

Download or read book And It Don't Stop written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." And It Don't Stop, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop generation has produced. It captures the indelible moments in hip-hop's history since 1979 and will be the centerpiece of the twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration. This book epitomizes the media's response by taking the reader on an engaging and critical journey, including the very first pieces written about hip-hop for publications like The Village Voice--controversial articles that created rifts between church and state, the artist and journalist, and articles that recorded the rise and tragic fall of the art form's appointed heroes, such as Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E, and the Notorious B.I.G. The list of contributors includes Toure, Kevin Powell, dream hampton, Harry Allen, Cheo Hodari Coker, Greg Tate, Bill Adler, Hilton Als, Danyel Smith, and Joan Morgan.

Ghetto Bastard 2

Author : Russell Vann
Publisher : Russell Dynasty LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780999154014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Bastard 2 written by Russell Vann and published by Russell Dynasty LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga continues . . . . The words "I love you" are echoed a million times a minute around the world, but what is love? Is it about a spiritual connection? Is love a form of infatuation? Are the words "I love you" a source of manipulation? In Ghetto Bastard: Book 2, twenty-six-year-old Malik Russell continues to discover the negative impact of love as he knows it. Society dictates that when a child is born, his mother automatically loves him. That she would protect and die for him-maternal love. But some mothers abuse their children, use them for financial gain, or even kill them. Some mothers neglect their children, like in Malik's case. If a child is raised with the absence of real love in his life, how does he learn to give it? How can he recognize it? The road to discovering self-love-the greatest love of all-is a rough one for kids who were raised by the ghetto; love can be as elusive as food, shelter, and clothing. Malik had love, he had a good job, he was making it. But infatuation, temptation, and manipulation got in the way of it all. With no foundation to fall back on, he gave up everything "for the girl." And now he's paying the price-he's alone, jobless, homeless, and hungry. What will he do now? Follow Malik on his solo journey to find true love: the love of God, the love of a good woman, and the love of family. And find out if it will be enough to keep him alive.

Everyday Stories

Author : Tammy Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983473900
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Stories written by Tammy Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poetry that is suppose to leave you uncomfortable enough to want to go out and do something to make a change in the world no matter how small. Tammy Jones plays with words in a prolific way that will make you look at every day life differently once you finish reading this book. She has mastered her style of conscious word play and flow. Her goal is to one day write a book where you can meet Shakespeare and RUN DMC on the same stage through grammar and music being merged into her unique style pennamed Hip Hope.

Rap

Author : Lawrence A. Stanley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140147888
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Rap written by Lawrence A. Stanley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the complete lyrics to 200 old school rap songs, with a history and overview of this musical form up until the early nineties. Once dismissed as a fashionable music form, rap is a vital force in American culture itself. From music awards to McDonalds adverts, sounds of rap have permeated the media. Controversies caused by groups such as Public Enemy, and sometimes coarse language and lyrics of the street have caused the public at large to scrutinize popular music in an attempt to control it. Like every other genre of music, the lyrics run from socially aware to hedonistic and everything in between.

To the Break of Dawn

Author : William Jelani Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716717
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. "To the Break of Dawn" uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam.The four pillars of hip hop - break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping - find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants' turnstile artistry.

The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations

Author : Kevin Powell
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 163614103X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations written by Kevin Powell and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time. “The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pandemic; the tragic killing of George Floyd; the #MeToo movement; and much more.” —Essence Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States. The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pandemic; the tragic killing of George Floyd; the #MeToo movement; and much more. In a journey that has produced fifteen books, countless cover stories, hundreds of published pieces, and definitive writings on iconic figures like Stacey Abrams, Dave Chappelle, Kerry Washington, Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tupac Shakur, Aretha Franklin, and Kendrick Lamar, Powell is a voice for our times, and a voice that is timeless. This collection also tracks Powell’s personal struggles and his unwavering honesty about himself and the world around him. The Kevin Powell Reader captures twenty-first-century America with hope, insight, and the urgent need to preserve freedom and justice for all people.

The 'Hood Comes First

Author : Murray Forman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819563972
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book The 'Hood Comes First written by Murray Forman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the significance of the 'hood in rap and hip hop

Dead-End Jobs

Author : Andy Rausch
Publisher : All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead-End Jobs written by Andy Rausch and published by All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract killers have long been a point of interest for readers of crime fiction and action film fans. Dead-End Jobs: A Hitman Anthology offers up eighteen works of short fiction from some of the hottest writers in the business. While the stories all depict professional killers, they are wildly different in their tone and the styles in which they are written, as well as the way they are depicted and the point-of-view from which they're told. Some of these killers are seasoned professionals and others are new to the killing game. Some stories find their settings in urban locales such as New York City or Los Angeles and others in backwater rural locations. There are also contract killers of every stripe. Some stories depict the traditional organized crime gunmen while others feature corner boys doing the bidding of neighborhood drug dealers and the like. The stories in this collection are fast-paced and action-packed. Just as there are contract killers of varying pedigrees here, Dead-End Jobs features the writing of veteran wordsmiths such as Joe R. Lansdale, Max Allan Collins, and Stephen Spignesi, as well as new but equally exciting writers. Each author in this collection is as skilled as the hitters depicted in the stories. But their weapons are words instead of rifles and pistols, and every one absolutely kills here. Praise for DEAD-END JOBS: “An incredible collection of powerful and haunting stories that exist in that shadowy realm between tragedy, nihilism and noir.” —S.A. Cosby, author of Blacktop Wasteland

Education as Enforcement

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136911332
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Education as Enforcement written by Kenneth J. Saltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civil society, the implosion of the neoconservative movement, and the financial meltdown that radically called into question the basic assumptions undergirding neoliberal ideology. An understanding of the enforcement of these corporate economic imperatives remains imperative to a critical discussion of related militarized trends in schools, whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline based reforms. Education as Enforcement elaborates upon the central arguments of the first edition and updates readers on how recent events have reinforced their continued original relevance. In addition to substantive updates to several original chapters, this second edition includes a new foreword by Henry Giroux, a new introduction, and four new chapters that reveal the most contemporary expressions of the militarization and corporatization of education. New topics covered in this collection include zero-tolerance, foreign and second language instruction in the post-9/11 context, the rise of single-sex classrooms, and the intersection of the militarization and corporatization of schools under the Obama administration.

Defining and Designing Multiculturalism

Author : Pepi Leistyna
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487989
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Defining and Designing Multiculturalism written by Pepi Leistyna and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just outside a major urban center on the east coast of the United States an activist group struggled to create a system-wide multicultural education program. Through a seven-year qualitative study, Pepi Leistyna documents and interprets—via a critical pedagogical lens—this group's work with professional development, curriculum and instruction, faculty and staff, and community outreach. Through engaging examples, stories, and participant voices, Leistyna offers a comprehensive, accessible ethnography with implications for others who might attempt similar sorts of systemic change.

Who's Gonna Take the Weight?

Author : Kevin Powell
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307422682
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Who's Gonna Take the Weight? written by Kevin Powell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination—and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscape—is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.” —Michael Eric Dyson “Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness.” —Nikki Giovanni In three mind-jolting essays by one of the most passionate and eloquent voices of his generation, Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? by Kevin Powell leads us to the heart of the searing issues facing us today, from manhood, violence, and gender oppression to celebrity culture and hip-hop. Using compelling personal stories as the connecting thread, he examines what this nation has become since the monumental upheavals of the 1960s and where it might be headed if we’re not careful. Written one hundred years after W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk and forty years after James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? is an impassioned witness to the burning problems that have accompanied us on our journey through the twenty-first century.

Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide [2 volumes]

Author : Mickey Hess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313343225
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide [2 volumes] written by Mickey Hess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful new resource that looks at the rise of American hip hop as a series of distinct regional events, with essays covering the growth of hip hop culture in specific cities across the nation. Thoroughly researched, thoroughly in tune with the culture, Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide profiles two dozen specific hip hop scenes across the United States, showing how each place shaped a singular identity. Through its unique geographic perspective, it captures the astonishing diversity of a genre that has captivated the nation and the world. In two volumes organized by broad regions (East Coast, West Coast and Midwest and the Dirty South), Hip Hop in America spans the complete history of rap—from its 1970s origins to the rap battles between Queens and the Bronx in the 1980s, from the well-publicized East Coast vs. West Coast conflicts in the 1990s to the rise of the Midwest and South over the past ten years. Each essay showcases the history of the local scene, including the MCs, DJs, b-boys and b-girls, label owners, hip hop clubs, and radio shows that have created distinct styles of hip hop culture.

The Unauthorised Biographies of... Kawhi Leonard, James Harden and Kevin Durant (MVP EDITION)

Author : Patris Gordon
Publisher : Blank Screen
ISBN 13 : 1916313221
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Unauthorised Biographies of... Kawhi Leonard, James Harden and Kevin Durant (MVP EDITION) written by Patris Gordon and published by Blank Screen . This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably three of the top 5 basketball players today. Take a look into the most enigmatic, yet hard-working, figure of the NBA, Kawhi Leonard. In this biography, we follow how the quiet Leonard has survived personal tragedy to continue to work his way up to become one of the best players of his generation. We also check out NBA superstar James Harden's rise to the top of the game - and see how this kid from Compton remained focused on basketball, avoiding any negative pitfalls. We trace Harden's early years to his MVP season in the NBA, and how his future could be decided by his past... Additionally, we take a personal insight into the career of premier NBA player, Kevin Durant. We view his rise to the NBA from college and high school. From Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Durant has worked hard to become one of the best players in the NBA.