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| Stanley Tookie Williams
ISBN: 0975358405
Format: Paperback, 365pp
Pub. Date: December 2004
Publisher: Damamli Publishing Compay
BBP Sales Rank: 83,587
List Price: $24.99
BBP Price: $18.79 |
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| Blue Rage, Black Redemption, Stanley
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From back cover:
"...In interviewing more than 5,000 gangsters over many years, I have been
stymied by this question: Why do young black men, most of whom come from
dysfunctional families living in poverty, constantly attempt -- with
too-frequent success -- to kill one another?
"[Stanley Tookie] Williams is the only person I know of -- gangster or
criminologist -- who has come up with any kind of articulate insight into
black-on-black gang violence. I quoted his answer in my book Gangsters:
I believe the core of it is an embedded sense of self-hate. What I mean by that
is, an individual who has been spoon-fed so many derogatory images of his race
will, after a period of time, start to believe those images. The images I'm
talking about are stereotypes that depict the majority of blacks as being
buffoons, functional illiterates, violent and promiscuous, welfare recipients,
indolent criminals... Unfortunately, too many black people have been
brainwashed into believing these stereotypes... So you end up lashing out at
the individuals [other gang members] that you consider to be part of those
stereotypes. In desperation, you're trying to obliterate that negative image to
rid yourself of this self-hate monster that subconsciously stalks you.
"Based on his apparent rehabilitation and insights into the gang problem after
his years on the streets and then on death row, Williams has something positive
to offer criminology and society..."
-- Lewis Yablonsky, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, California State
University of Northridge, Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2002
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
A Memoir
by Stanley Tookie Williams
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