Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir

Williams, Stanley Tookie -- 1953-2005 (Author).

Record details

Physical Description: print
xx, 384 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed., [posthumous ed.].
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster ; [Pleasant Hill, CA] : Published in conjunction with Damamli Pub., c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

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

"A Touchstone book."

Formatted Contents Note:

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.