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8 Ball Chicks by
Gini Sikes (Author) |
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Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by
Luis J. Rodriguez |
 Behind
Bars: Surviving Prison by
Jeffrey Ian Ross,
Stephen C. Richards |
 Do or Die
by
Leon Bing (Author) |
 Doing
Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology
by
Bell Gale Chevigny (Author) |
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East Side Stories: Gang Life in East LA by
Joseph Rodriguez
(Photographer),
Ruben Martinez (Contributor),
Luis J. Rodriguez
(Contributor) |
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Inside Rikers : Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony by
Jennifer Wynn (Author) |
 Life in Prison by
Stanley
'Tookie' Williams,
Stanley Williams,
Barbara Cottman Becnel (Contributor) (Paperback
- February 2001) |
 Monster
: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, The by
Sanyika Shakur,
Monster Kody Scott ~
Hardcover,
Library Binding ~ Written in solitary confinement,
Kody Scott's
memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing
bestseller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more
than 300,000 copies in print in the United States alone. After pumping
eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members,
twelve-year-old
Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He
quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers,
earning the name 'Monster' for committing acts of brutality and violence
that repulsed even his fellow gang members. When the inevitable jail term
confined him to a maximum-security cell, a complete political and personal
transformation followed: from Monster to
Sanyika Shakur, black
nationalist, member of the
New Afrikan Independence Movement, and
crusader against the causes of gangsterism. In a document that has been
compared to
The Autobiography of Malcolm X and
Eldridge Cleaver's
Soul on Ice, Shakur makes palpable the despair and decay of America's
inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto
experience today. |
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by
Reymundo Sanchez,
Rey Sanchez |
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Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by
Ted Conover (Author) |
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Prison Etiquette by
Holley R. Cantine (Editor), et al |
 The African-American Odyssey, Combined (2nd Edition) by
Darlene Clark Hine
(Author), et al (Hardcover) |
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The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon (Books) |
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Movies |
 Beef
~ DVD ~ Featuring 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Nas, DMX, Snoop Dog, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube,
Ja Rule, Mack 10, Common, Cypress Hill, Russell Simmons, NWA, and legendary
battlers KRS- One, MC Chan, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee and more! Narrated by Ving Rhames. |
 C-Walk - It's a Way of Livin'
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DVD ~ Straight
off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a
gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the
artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live
performances, and meet the original Crip gang members who started the walk. Is
it a dance... or a gang ritual? You decide! Features Snoop Dogg,WC,Ice-T, Kurupt, Ras Kass, Malik Yoba, Warren G and Jonathan Davis. |
 Juice
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DVD ~ Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain ,
Samuel L. Jackson, George Gore II, Queen Latifah, Flex Alexander, LaTanya Richardson, Donald Faison, Ed Lover, Doctor Dré,
Fab Five Freddy, Anthony 'Treach' Criss |
 Menace
II Society ~ DVD ~ Tyrin Turner |
 Paid
in Full ~ DVD ~ Wood Harris |
 Welcome
to Death Row ~
DVD ~
Welcome
to Death Row tells the unauthorized history of the most notorious rap label
ever. And what a story it is--the rise and fall of Death Row and its
power-hungry CEO,
Marion 'Suge' Knight, makes The Godfather look like a
bedtime story. The film traces the entire controversial history of the label and
the impact it had on not only the music industry but American culture. The film
also details the relationship between Death Row and its biggest star,
Tupac Shakur, and the effect that Shakur's sudden death in a 1996 drive-by shooting
had on the label's fortunes (a story told in greater depth in
Thug Immortal). |
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Books - continued |
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The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by
Pete Earley (Author) |
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The Tupac Shakur Collection by Tupac Shakur (Books) |
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Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words by
Jeff Evans
(Editor), Jimmy Santiago Baca (Books) (Foreword) |
 You
Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish by
JIMMY A. LERNER (Author)
In-Print Editions:
Paperback
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e-book (Microsoft Reader) |
e-book (Adobe Reader) |
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More African American Gangs (Books) |
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More
African Americans in Prison (Books) |
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Have
You Heard of Purple Pastures