Author : Lola Willow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648073955
Where Are My Homies At?
Lola Willow
Where Are My Homies At
Where Are My Homies At Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Where Are My Homies At book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Homies: A David Gonzales Retrospective
David Gonzales
Author : David Gonzales
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781524100759
Homies: A David Gonzales Retrospective by David Gonzales Pdf
"Cruise on a trip through my memories of drawing lowriders and tees, of creating Homies for the last thirty-five years. A pictorial narrative of one artist following his dreams..." Created by David Gonzales, the Homies first appeared as an underground comic strip that debuted in Lowrider Magazine in 1978, a reflection of his friends and lifestyle. At first a group of tightly knit Chicano buddies from East Los Angeles, the Homies expanded their crew to over 300 characters from all different cultures, genres, and even species. In an inner-city world plagued by poverty and oppression, they formed a strong, binding cultural support system that enabled them to overcome negativity and turn to laughter and good times as an antidote for reality. Homies erupted as a mainstream sensation in 1994 when trend-savvy retailer Hot Topic offered Homies shirts for sale, rapidly becoming popular with the youth market. Following on the heels of a successful T-shirt run, Homies was licensed for figurines in the vending machine toy industry, where all sales records were broken, with over 150 million figurines sold worldwide. The licensing program soon spread to products such as action figures, remote-control and die-cast cars, notebooks, posters, plush, Halloween masks, video games, music, and more, carried by specialty and mass retailers everywhere. History of the Homies is a triumphant celebration of the turbulent times, remarkable artistry, and youthful street culture of a pop culture phenomenon, including hundreds of pictures and a complete guide to Homies figurines.
Homie
Danez Smith
Author : Danez Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644451090
Homie by Danez Smith Pdf
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.
Left Behind with the Homies
Herman Fontenette
Author : Herman Fontenette
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781479702022
Left Behind with the Homies by Herman Fontenette Pdf
It was the last days on Earth. Deception was in its greatest form as people worshipped money and the things it brought foward. Deonica Joyner thought she had it made as her bank account grew from dating a multi-millionaire oil tycoon. She turned her back on spirituality only to be left-behind on Earth. The Wallace twins had the best opportunity to be caught up with their mother than the thugs they ran the streets with. They too became left-behind as they witnessed Jesus in the sky while on a mission to Mexico to rescue Deonica from her captives. She placed money over God as the twins chose the thug-life to be Left Behind with the Homies.
Caught up Chronicles of a Gangsta Crip.
William Blackwell
Author : William Blackwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781716125683
Caught up Chronicles of a Gangsta Crip. by William Blackwell Pdf
Blossom
Queen Pen
Author : Queen Pen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743284509
Blossom by Queen Pen Pdf
Hip-hop artist Queen Pen's powerful debut novel is a love story of ultimate passion and desperate measures set on the tough streets of Brooklyn.
All That I Am
Farren Bryant Jr.
Author : Farren Bryant Jr.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684095056
All That I Am by Farren Bryant Jr. Pdf
Farren Bryant Jr. is a young African American at war on several fronts. Emotionally drained, spiritually dehydrated, and emotionally battered. He embarks on a journey that leads him from school yard fights, to the darkest street corners, to empty jail cells. Plagued by anger and burdened with the weight of losing friends to internal strife within the gang he joined. He sets about pursuing an early childhood peace and religious love lost to the streets and a vast prison system that's meant to callous the heart. His fight is to remain all that he is as he struggles with faith, hope, love and adversity while facing elements that can break the human spirit.
SHAME
RaeLynn Ricarte
Author : RaeLynn Ricarte
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781649521842
SHAME by RaeLynn Ricarte Pdf
America has failed to realize that depriving people of their freedom for a criminal act is the punishment-it is vengeance to require that they suffer every day while they are incarcerated. In Shame: America's Failed Prison System, the author lays out the case for reform through essays from prisoners and reports from judges, legislators, defense attorneys, and even a warden and corrections officer about how our vengeance mindset plays out in the daily lives of prisoners. They are warehoused in a bleak, dangerous, cold, and unforgiving environment that many refer to as gladiator school, and they come out more damaged than when they went in. Many will never get out and can only look forward to dying alone because their families will not be allowed to be present during their last hours. What you will learn from this book is that it is simplistic as a society to expect people to "get it together" once we send them into an abusive system. Many people in prison are broken from addictions, mental health issues, and abusive childhoods. And there are not enough programs available to help them figure out the underlying causes of their behavior. One of the gang members featured in this book says, "This isn't punishment, this is the way we lived on the streets." The same hustles, the same violence, the same "predator or prey" mentality. The art for the book was contributed by four prisoners. They show that, even in the ugliness of an institution, there is untapped potential. This book closes with hope because political winds are blowing for change and there are now ways that people can help drive reform. Americans are waking up to the fact that mass incarceration is not sustainable and Shame is a call for change.
Paranoia & Heartbreak
Jerome Gold
Author : Jerome Gold
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583229859
Paranoia & Heartbreak by Jerome Gold Pdf
For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of one man's nuanced perspective on a unique group of young people. Paranoia & Heartbreak tells Gold’s personal story of coming to terms with people who have crossed over to the other side of their own humanity. Writing from ample experience and with unflinching compassion, Gold brings the reader to see these "deviants"—and through them, in some slanted way, our whole society, with an unexpected intensity.
An Incomplete List of Names
Michael Torres
Author : Michael Torres
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807046784
An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres Pdf
An astonishing debut collection looking back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the impulse to create a world of their own. Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others’ perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this collection illuminates the artist’s struggle to make sense of the disparate identities others have forced upon him. His description of his childhood is both idyllic and nightmarish, sometimes veering between the two extremes, sometimes a surreal combination of both at once. He calls himself “the Pachuco’s grandson” or REMEK or Michael, depending on the context, and others follow his lead. He worries about losing his identification card, lest someone mistake his brown skin for evidence of a crime he never committed. He wonders what his students—imprisoned men who remind him of his high school friends and his own brother—make of him. He wonders how often his neighbors think about where he came from, if they ever do imagine where he came from. When Torres returns to his hometown to find the layers of spray-painted evidence he and his boyhood friends left behind to prove their existence have been washed away by well-meaning municipal workers, he wonders how to collect a list of names that could match the eloquent truths those bubbled letters once secured.
Latinx Experiences
Maria J. Villasenor,Hortencia Jimenez
Author : Maria J. Villasenor,Hortencia Jimenez
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781071849538
Latinx Experiences by Maria J. Villasenor,Hortencia Jimenez Pdf
This reader introduces students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs′ experiences in the U.S., and prepares them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. The opening essay, written by the editors, offers a broad overview of the approximately 59 million people in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic. The rest of the book will consist of contributed essays from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars on a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. Although the essays are written for lower-division undergraduates, they reflect many of the leading theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. The essays are unified by an intersectional approach, demonstrating how experiences and life chances of Latinxs are also shaped by gender, social class, sexuality, age, and citizenship status.
Looking for Los Angeles
Charles G. Salas,Michael S. Roth
Author : Charles G. Salas,Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892366168
Looking for Los Angeles by Charles G. Salas,Michael S. Roth Pdf
In Looking for Los Angeles 12 contributors present their responses to the world's newest major city. A variety of perspectives and approaches are covered. The text balances the importance of place with the importance of culture.
Continuance Drama
Michael Sims
Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781662445750
Continuance Drama by Michael Sims Pdf
The book is a compelling story of how Michael Sims reformed and redeemed himself from the violent life as a notorious gang member. He turned his life around and has become a passionate activist against violence. This book is his way of reaching out to the younger generation, to transform their anger and aggression into positive energy.
Homies #1
David Gonzales,Elliot Serrano
Author : David Gonzales,Elliot Serrano
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Homies #1 by David Gonzales,Elliot Serrano Pdf
It's time to go back to the barrío with the HOMIES! The surprise hit of the 90's is back in a brand-new comic book series co-plotted by original HOMIES creator David Gonzales and "Adventures of Grumpy Cat" writer Elliott Serrano, featuring all-new stories and never-before-seen characters. With art and covers by Andrew Huerta, HOMIES #1 features the long-awaited wedding of Hollywood and Gata. It's been a day that she has imagined for her entire life, but now Gata has to deal with everyone trying to ruin it! What will she do when she hears the whispers about Hollywood and his womanizing ways? Will the wedding still take place when everything that can go wrong actually does? Is Hollywood destined to be a bachelor for life, or will Gata finally get him to settle down? It's a day that will be full of love, laughs and heartbreak. But for who? It's time to go back to the barrío with the HOMIES! The surprise hit of the 90's is back in a brand-new comic book series co-plotted by original HOMIES creator David Gonzales and "Adventures of Grumpy Cat" writer Elliott Serrano, featuring all-new stories and never-before-seen characters. With art and covers by Andrew Huerta, HOMIES #1 features the long-awaited wedding of Hollywood and Gata. It's been a day that she has imagined for her entire life, but now Gata has to deal with everyone trying to ruin it! What will she do when she hears the whispers about Hollywood and his womanizing ways? Will the wedding still take place when everything that can go wrong actually does? Is Hollywood destined to be a bachelor for life, or will Gata finally get him to settle down?
Promises of Gold
José Olivarez
Author : José Olivarez
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781250878489
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez Pdf
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named one of NPR's Books We Love “How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love—but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.” In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which “love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.” Whether readers enter this collection in English or via the Spanish translation by poet David Ruano González, these extraordinary poems are sure to become beloved for their illuminations of life—and love. “¿Cuántas malas parejas han inspirado poemas? ¿Cuántos crush es? Sin faltarle el respeto al amor romántico—pero ¿qué hay de los amigos? Esos compas que están ahí todo el tiempo—animándonos y recordándonos que elamor es abundante”. En esta innovadora colección de poemas, José Olivarez explora cada tipo de amor—el propio, fraternal, romántico, familiar, cultural. Lidiando con las contradicciones del sueño americano, con una humanidad inquebrantable, deja al descubierto las maneras en que “el amor se va complicando por fuerzas más grandes que nuestros corazones”. Ya sea que los lectores entren a esta colección en inglés o a partir de la traducción al español del poeta David Ruano González, estos extraordinarios poemas serán amados seguramente por sus iluminaciones sobre el amor y la vida.