Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Preface: "I Always Wanted to Make a Book Out of My Life" In Search of Tupae | p. 1 |
Childhood Chains, Adolescent Aspirations | |
"Dear Mama" Motherhood and a Hood's Mother | p. 21 |
"The Son of a Panther" A Postrevolutionary Childhood | p. 47 |
"No Malcolm X in My History Text" School, Learning, and Tupac's Books | p. 69 |
Portraits of an Artist | |
"Give Me a Paper and a Pen" Tupac's Place in Hip-Hop | p. 105 |
"For All the Real Niggas Out There" Authenticity Blues | p. 141 |
Bodies and Beliefs | |
"Do We Hate Our Women?" Female Per Versions | p. 175 |
"But Do the Lord Care?" God, Suffering, Compassion, and Death in the Ghetto | p. 201 |
"I Got Your Name Tatted on My Arm" Reading the Black Body | p. 231 |
Epilogue: "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" Posthumous Presences of a Ghetto Saint | p. 247 |
Notes | p. 269 |
Bibliography | p. 272 |
Index | p. 286 |
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