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Losing my cool : how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hiphop culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Thomas Chatterton, 1981-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions.
African American youth > Attitudes.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans > Race identity.
Popular culture > United States.
Hip-hop > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.