ISBN:
9780143119623
,
0143119621
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 225 Seiten
,
22 cm
DDC:
305.235/108996073
Keywords:
Williams, Thomas Chatterton
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
African American youth Attitudes
;
African Americans in popular culture
;
African Americans Race identity
;
Popular culture
;
Hip-hop
;
Fathers and sons
;
Hip-hop culture ; United States
;
Popular culture ; United States
;
African American youth ; Attitudes
;
African Americans in popular culture
;
African Americans ; Race identity
;
African Americans ; Social conditions
;
Fathers and sons
;
Hip-hop
;
Popular culture
;
Autobiographies
;
United States
Abstract:
Preface -- The discovery of what it means to be a black boy -- A wicked genie -- What about your friends? -- Street dreams (who am I to disagree?) -- Slip the yoke -- You can't go home again -- Beginning to see the light -- To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish -- Every secret loses its force -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
The author describes his personal experiences growing up being influenced by hip-hop culture, while at the same time having his father encourage education and a love of literature, and how he struggled to accommodate both worlds in his life
