Bandana Republic A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates

Name: Bandana Republic A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates
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ISBN: 9781593761943

ISBN-10: 1593761945

ISBN-13: 9781593761943

Edition: 2008

Authors: Louis Reyes Rivera, Bruce George

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Publication date: 5/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.20" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Louis Reyes Rivera is a key figure in the current spoken-word poetry scene. He is the author of several collections of poems. He lives in New York City.



Foreword



Introduction




Battleground


We Are Born Into This



Super Tramp



Set Tripping



Initiation: Seven Immortals



Self-Made Man


The Night Gotti Died



king of ghettosphere



Racial Conflicts



Untitled


Maria



Machine in Mo-Shuuun!


Riverside Outlaw


Catch You at the Crossroads



I didn't know


Shooting the Rabid Dog


Ethnic cleansing



These Hands



Esoteric Rhetoric


Battle



Partners to the End


Recess Time



Refugees



Kasper


I ran from, and to, home



Homeboy


Writing Inside Time



Dead Angels



Where the Luv At


The Pariah



Telling the Tale


Flexing for Turf



Absence of Choice



Untitled



From Gangs of the Ghetto to Gangstas of the Inner City



Ghetto Nostalgia



Our Children Are Screaming



Todo Por Mi Familia: An interview with Chino Familia



With all due respect to Big Tookie


18th Street Showdown



Inner City Disease


What Blood Means


D.T.K. (Down to Kill)



Big Tommy, Little Tommy



The Darkest of Knights



Eloquent Hypocrisy




On the Count


I am what it is to be



As I lay in my lonely and cold bed


A Letter from the Inside


A Prayer from Hell



Where'd He Learn It From



The Cage!



Have You Seen the Sun



Jailed



The Game



Excerpt: "Down for Revolution"


Mind Games


They gave me twelve years on the wake-up


I'm Just Waiting


Behind Prison Bars



Letter to My Son



Leaving Death Row



I Am/I Am Out




The Politics We See


Old Lines



Para Los Latinos y Federico Garcia Lorca



From the Gut


Introduction to Life



On the Lifestyle of Gang Culture


Gangbanging the American Way


Original Garvey (OG)


Kun Fieya Kun


The N Word!


Political Poetry



Gangs R Us


Brooklyn! Downed Town!


Break Your Chains


Fear of a Bandana Republic



Can You Tap Into the Mentality



What do R.B.G. Mean?


Born Identity



Gangs



The Brothas Gunnin'


SinCity (For Springfield, MA)



Tupac



Uhuru (a revolutionary carol)



Hard Love


Without Pretense


What are we having


Dangerously in Love


Dancin' at the Printz Grille



She's Just Modeling


Eyes Open Wide


Inside Out


Progress



The Dinner



Family Ties



Untitled



Home Street Home



English Only Spoken Here!



In the Name of Love



Visiting Day at Elmwood


Ghetto Haikus


Degree of Separation (part 2)



Tribute



Elegy: in hot pursuit




New Leaves Turning


What Is a Gang?


Scarface


It Seems Like Yesterday


Diverse and Wild



The Process



On Some Freedom Shit



Michael Jackson's Actions



Patience of the Spider (An interview with Spider Loc)



Truth and Honesty



An Open Letter



Youth and Community



The thoughts of a man, the words of a Crip


To Whom It May Concern



On David


50 Clip Reincarnation



Simply Give


The Deal Is Done



Gangs



America doesn't have a gang problem



We Shine


The Ghetto Manifesto


Code of Conduct



The Directive