Cover -- What People Are Saying About Tookie's Work -- Also by Stanley Tookie Williams -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword by Tavis Smiley -- Introduction -- Part 1: BLUE RAGE -- 1 Born in the Bayou -- 2 South Central -- 3 Sibling Feud -- 4 Hallelujah, Hallelujah -- 5 The Art of Dys-education -- 6 Voodoo Medicine -- 7 Stepfamily -- 8 Adolescent Blues -- 9 Point of No Return -- 10 The Institutional Shuffle -- 11 Seeds of a Gang -- 12 Crip Walk -- 13 The Criplettes -- 14 Tookie's Law -- 15 Boys Republic to Factor Brookins -- 16 Mr. Buddha! Mr. Buddha! -- 17 Compton Ambassador -- 18 Straddling the Fence -- 19 Invincibility Shot Down -- 20 The Big Comeback -- 21 The Old Stomping Ground -- 22 Float On, Float On, Float On -- 23 Schemes and Things -- 24 Living the Funk -- 25 The Longest Day -- 26 Rage of Another Kind -- Part 2: BLACK REDEMPTION -- 27 The Missing Years -- 28 Inside the Beast -- 29 Things Happen -- 30 Change Will Come -- 31 Trials, Tribulations -- 32 Let There Be Light -- 33 Human Angel -- 34 Moto Ndani (The Fire Within) -- 35 Redemption…Step Forward -- 36 A Woman Called Mother Africa -- 37 Black Phoenix Rising -- 38 Sons of the Father -- Afterthoughts -- Epilogue by Barbara Becnel -- Special Acknowledgments -- The Tookie Protocol for Peace: A Local Street Peace Initiative -- Photographic Insert
Black Futures
Check out Black Futures - <b><b>“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Editors’ Choice)</b><br><br></b><i><b>What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?</b></i><br><br>Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics.<br><br> In answering the question of what it means to be Black and alive, <i>Black Futures</i> opens a prismatic vision of possibility for every reader. by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew on Bookshop.org UK!
Hoodoo as Practice | Linktree
A hub for my curriculum "Hoodoo As Practice," linking Black spirituality, liberation, activism, and political awareness together for waking Black folk.
Bay Area Hip-Hop | That’s My Word | KQED
A Year-Long Exploration of Bay Area Hip-Hop History
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Beyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor
"Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills
Black Music, White Halls: Toward a Black American Music Curriculum – ACT
Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 25 (1): 52–76 [pdf]. https://doi.org/10.22176/act25.1.52
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Party Music by Rickey Vincent | East Bay Booksellers
Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America.
Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films
The unparalleled commercial sucessess that gospel-playwright-turned-screenwriter Tyler Perry has attained through converting his stage plays into films that depict black women overcoming personal crises raises questions about the intent behind his seemingly feminist-inspired representations of black womanhood. Through an analysis of the rhetoric of healing in Perry’s first two films, this essay reveals one of the suppressive pedagogical functions of Perry’s representation of black womanhood. Rhetorics of healing are a series of persuasive messages, performances, and literacy acts that writers deploy in order to convince readers that redressing or preventing crises requires them to follow the curriculum for ideological, communicative, and behavioral transformation that the writer considers essential to wellness. In Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, Perry’s representation of rhetorical healing constructs black Christian women as students who must learn prescribed attitudes and behaviors to achieve, or remain in, states of wellness, and these lessons reinforce conservative gender ideologies and reify patriarchal constructions of the family and home. Given black women’s historically tenuous relationships with representations of themselves and their families in mainstream film, and given the ways in which their labor in the home is simultaneously desired and exploited, the popularity of Perry’s films does not suggest that his representations of healing foster black women’s self-empowerment. Rather, his popularity points to a moment where black women’s pain is a commodity and their instructive journeys to wellness are an exploited site where writers can carry out their own agendas.
year in review · luna
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Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to 'Block the Blue' paid checkmarks
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