Download or read book Young Nigga written by Osachafo Jamal Brewer and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: t is 2003 and Corey Carter is innocently playing his usual pickup game of basketball on the school grounds when he suddenly hears, “Pop, pop, pop!” As soon as a body drops, Corey jumps a fence and heads to his grandmother’s house. After a witness sends the police to his home, Corey’s grandmother decides to send him to live with his mother who has recently been released from prison in Arizona. As Corey attempts to adjust to his new existence in gangland, he hangs out at the local Boys and Girls Club where he learns the color of an outfit can be the difference between life and death. While he becomes educated on the gangbang, Corey gets an up-close, personal reality check regarding fast money and all that comes with it. As play time ends, friends turn into enemies, and trust transforms into an illusion, Corey becomes immersed in a grown man’s game. Now time will tell who will win when the last man is standing. In this urban tale, a young man becomes the freshest kid on the block when he moves from California to gangland Arizona where he must navigate the streets to survive.
Download or read book Your Average Nigga written by Vershawn Ashanti Young and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance. In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but forces black males to choose between an education and their masculinity, by choosing to act either white or black. As one would expect from a scholar who is subject to the very circumstances he studies, Young shares his own experiences as he exposes the factors that make black racial identity irreconcilable with literacy for blacks, especially black males. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary scholarship in performance theory and African American literary and cultural studies, Young shows that the linguistic conflict that exists between black and white language styles harms black students from the inner city the most. If these students choose to speak Standard English they risk alienating themselves from their families and communities, and if they choose to retain their customary speech and behavior they may isolate themselves from mainstream society. Young argues that this conflict leaves blacks in the impossible position of either trying to be white or forever struggling to prove that they are black enough. For men, this also becomes an endless struggle to prove that they are masculine enough. Young calls this constant effort to display proper masculine and racial identity the burden of racial performance. Ultimately, Young argues that racial and verbal performances are a burden because they cannot reduce the causes or effects of racism, nor can they denaturalize supposedly fixed identity categories, as many theorists contend. On the contrary, racial and verbal performances only reinscribe the essentialism that they are believed to subvert. Scholars and teachers of rhetoric, performance studies, and African American studies will enjoy this insightful volume.
Download or read book What Doesn t Kill You Makes You Blacker written by Damon Young and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the host of podcast "Stuck with Damon Young," cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in Americais enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It’s a condition that’s sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the “being straight” thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to “Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies.” And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.
Download or read book A Hood Nigga s Blues written by Tranay Adams and published by Tranay Adams. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After avenging his homeboy’s shooting, MARQUAN is given a ten-year sentence on a murder charge. Locked up, he takes the time to reflect on his life and the decisions that have put him in unfortunate circumstances. Coming to the conclusion that he must change for the better, Marquan decides to turn his life around and live righteously. But his past comes back to haunt him, and he finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful cars behind the walls. They’re looking to take his head to right an injustice. Meanwhile, life on the outside isn’t what it’s cracked up to be for his family. A guilty conscience causes his son’s mother, ADELE, to turn to the needle to tame her demons. Addicted to heroin, she neglects her responsibilities to their son, ANTONIO, a young man that’s eager to follow in the gangster footsteps of his father. Aiding him along the path of self-destruction is a man that Marquan once called friend, APOCALYPSE. Will Marquan survive the green light that’s been put on him in prison and make it out in time to save his family, or is he destined to leave the penitentiary in a body bag?
Download or read book Bounce Back written by Baby Cash Houston and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game has it’s ups and downs for the upcoming Millionaire, Mill as he wrestles his way to the top experiencing the betrayals and perilousness that being in the game will surely bring. The Question is, do he have what it takes to overcome the insurmountable odds against him.
Download or read book Storetry written by Allan Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Storetry continues to prevail with its ghetto gospels and real life stories that will shock the psyche and help open the blind and ghetto souls in the world in a poetic and raunchy motion. Storetry has returned to rapture the ghettos in America to the next level. It is a down to earth and up close and personal hardcore book that will expand the awareness of the ignorant if read carefully. That which makes a person laugh can also make a person cry so never judge a book by its cover or title because miracles dont happen until you give something a try. So dont stop at this introduction because the real wisdom lies within the pages of this book and there is something different on each page so open up and take a close look.
Download or read book Carl Weber s Kingpins Snitch written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood is thicker than water! Every grimy hustler will express those words when they are out on the block chasing the bag. But when Flash’s back is up against the wall and he’s being pressured by homicide detectives, all sense of loyalty goes out the window. Flash, the son of Philadelphia drug queen pin Vickie Lopez, decides he isn't going to prison, not even for his own mother. When he’s arrested for a small amount of cocaine, he spills his guts to Philadelphia homicide detectives, resulting in the arrest and federal conviction, under the RICO Act, of his own mother. She’s staring down a life sentence. As the clock winds down on the deal he cut with the Feds, Flash is shipped to Graterford, one of the harshest prisons in the state of Pennsylvania. His baby brother, who is North Philly’s most notorious contract killer, awaits him for a family reunion. With nowhere to run, Flash is forced to lay in the bed he made for himself. His past has finally come back to haunt him. Will his brother make him pay the ultimate price for betraying their mother, or will he forgive him for his sin?
Download or read book The Soul of Hip Hop written by Daniel White Hodge and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Hip Hop? Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful. Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling. Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right. What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.
Download or read book Craving That Hood Love written by Kiera Neufville and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life wasn't easy for Nautica Butler. She's the product of an absent father and mother. Nautica tries her best to keep afloat and not become a product of her environment. With a praying grandmother who won't let her fail, things are hard for Nautica. At almost 18, her focus should be on graduating and her choice of college. Being an A student thanks to her grandmother might not satisfy her craving. That all comes to a halt when she starts craving that hood love from bad boy Cedric “GUTTA” Grayson. Nautica is young, naive, blinded by love, and most importantly, fragile. Having never been exposed to love, Nautica’s life takes a turn. Could it be for better or worse? Gutta is all about his money and taking care of his family, nothing else. If it isn’t about the money, the conversation is null and void for niggas and bitches alike. People who know him in the streets would describe him as reserved and calculated. He's coming up in the game with his two right hands, Malone and Dolph. They say all the company isn't good company. See what happens when they mix the two. Jealousy strikes between the friends causing wedges to be drawn. Money can turn your friends into villains. Love has never been easy, in fact, most call it a battlefield. A bad boy and good girl are the perfect match when you’re able to put the drama to the side. But when the drama dances in the eyes of the one you love, perfect can start to look tainted.
Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
Download or read book Hustlin Divas written by De'nesha Diamond and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of a fierce new series, meet Memphis's hardest ride-or-die chicks as they fight along with their infamous men to lock down the Dirty South. Memphis is the crime capital of America, and no one knows that better than the women born and raised on its mean streets. It's put sisters Ta'Shara and LeShelle on opposite sides of the street game, where blood means nothing and loyalty doesn't last long. It's also got Yolanda, an ambitious drug mule, and Melanie, a police detective, caught up with the same man--the notorious hustler Python. These four women think they've got the game figured out, but the one man they have in common will have them living double lives and wondering who will come out on top. Forget what you heard about East Coast/West Coast, 'cause real vendettas are born in the Dirty South. "Diamond's ear for street talk comes across loud and clear. . .a violent and profane tale, which launches a gritty new series. The divas here are realistic characters, and the pacing zooms. . .one of the best constructed street lit stories of 2010." --Library Journal "A nonstop, hard-hitting page-turner." --Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker
Download or read book A Grind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste written by N.S. Hood and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two roads to take on this journey called Life. The right way, which is summed up at times as “The Good Life.” On the other hand, some people take a left which is “The Street Life.” A lot of young niggas take this route not always because they want to, but because that’s the only road in the middle of nowhere. America was built on the same. Come ups that are considered crimes today. Fraud, Robbery, Murder and Grand larceny. The problem is the youth is more up front with the truth, too much exposure can effect an entire generation. That can make life crazy. The unbelievable is always reality. The unpredictable is always anticipated. Funny thing is only a selected few realize what they see is only an illusion, what they need is always confused with what they want. Priority is always confused with “I’ll do it eventually.” If only we could see are mistakes for what they are. No one is perfect, Do to our creator, but if there was a such thing as an equal perfect would the world still be kaotic with envy and hatred? Of course, nothing has changed. It’s still a war being waged amongst one another everyday. Individuals don’t think individually they let others control their mind because they are weak minded. They are controlled, by people around them, almost like a child that depends on you to feed them whatever you give them, they are trusting you to give them something to fulfill their hunger. They eat it without question or suspicion just like the people that you surround yourself with. They feed you whatever they think you mind will eat. If you let them, they will feed you whatever they went. Whether its lies, the truth, or entertainment; whatever to fulfill the satisfaction of acceptance.
Download or read book Like Candy Part One written by Candy Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get money and break hearts, thats Candys motto. Every man shes ever met has been nothing but a means to an end for her until Loon sweeps her off her feet, and she falls in love with everything about him. Hes a thug and a gentleman and, in her eyes, the perfect match. But after he crosses her, she instinctively turns cold and tries her best to ruin his life while hers flourishes. Unfortunately for Candy, Loon is not one to be played with.
Download or read book State 2 State written by George Wyatt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mek is a tall black nigga with dark brown eyes who lives a real flashy lifestyle, women melt in his presence. Mek is a state-to-state traveling drug dealer who’s in love with one woman but has the mind of many. Mek’s crime partner and wife, Boobie, has a few secrets of her own other than being Mek’s loyal and trusted lover! Bones, Mek’s drug connect, has plans to take over Mek’s operation. The killing will begin when the deceit comes into play. Welcome to the world of Mek—state-to-state travels and the betrayal of his woman and the hate coming from his connect. It’s gonna be crazy, bloody and romantic. Get ready, reader, for State 2 State!
Download or read book She Took My Heart and Went Crazy 4 written by A'zayler and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you've run your whole life, living freely and doing whatever felt good, and then you finally hit rock bottom? The deepest, darkest bottom of the rock that there could possibly be? Who do you run to? Who can you count on to be there and save you from yourself? Lucky, for Yeshi, he didn't have to ask those two questions, because just like she's always been, his own personal angel, Logan is there to build him up where he's torn down. However, he isn't the only one with problems. Is she strong enough to carry the burdens for them both, or will she have to find solace in the arms of another man? Fresh, rejuvenated, and in love, East and Killian are at the best place they could ever be. Married with their children, life is good until East's sister, Jerian, comes to town and flips their peaceful lives upside down. No matter how hard the two try to maintain their happiness, Jerian stops at nothing to ruin what they've built. Just when they think they have it all under control again, everything that can go wrong does."
Download or read book When Dogs Bark written by Charles Harvey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles W. Harvey is an award winning writer of fiction, poetry, and drama. His story Cheeseburger, won the 1987 PEN/Southwest Award. The story WHEN DOGS BARK has been widely anthologized in SHADE, Soulfires, STORY MAGAZINE and others. His poetry has appeared in the James White Review and other Publications. Please be on the lookout for his novel THE ROAD TO ASTROWORLD which had quite a few New York Editors wagging their tongues. He resides in Houston, Texas with his cat Electra.
Download or read book Not Your Ordinary Group Home Girl written by C. C. C. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the years had gone by I had started to reflect on my life and how far I had come from foster care to being in group home after group home my entire life; to this point in my life and felt it was best to leave those who meant me no good in the past. However, sometimes the past just doesnt want to let you go. I went through so much growing up and even in my adult life. I actually spent the majority of my life in group homes from the ages of 12 to 22. So I feel that a lot of my growing has come from being raised by staff members, group home supervisors, neighborhood people, and the group home girls I lived with. It was a struggle but being in those group homes made me who I am today and I cant complain due to how I turned out. So I figured Id write my thoughts, my vision, my struggles, my trials and tribulations down on a piece of paper and share my life with the world as being not Your Ordinary Group Home Girl.
