The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur

The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur

Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller 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.

Shakur, Sanyika: - Kody Scott was born in 1963 and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. In sixth grade he joined the Crips and soon earned the nom de guerre Monster. He transformed himself into black nationalist Sanyika Shakur while in a California maximum-security prison.

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ISBN 13	9780140232257
ISBN 10	0140232257
Title	The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Author	Sanyika Shakur
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1994-05-26
Number of pages	383
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