The Beast side : living and dying while black in America / D. Watkins ; foreword by David Talbot.

Salon columnist D. Watkins explores the economic, political, and social realities of being black in the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watkins, D. (Dwight) (Author)
Other Authors: Talbot, David, 1951- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Hot Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Watkins, D. > (Dwight)
Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations.
Race discrimination > Maryland > Baltimore.
African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xxii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stoop stories
  • Lessons of a former dope dealer
  • That yak will kill you : rollin' with my uncle and his homeboy Rod
  • Gunplay is all I know
  • Black women
  • Rappers' blood diamonds
  • The school of failure
  • My city is gone
  • Too poor for pop culture
  • My neighborhood revolution
  • Crimes of the art
  • Chasin' the gram
  • What to eat?
  • Fuck the national anthem
  • Cops kill niggas in America
  • Black lives DO matter...to capitalists
  • Black cop down
  • Cops are the terrorists in our neighborhood
  • In Baltimore, we're all Freddie Gray
  • Missing black men
  • The black crisis clergy
  • Smells like victory : but the Baltimore Uprise is only the beginning
  • O-Ate-Obama.