The Resource When they tell you to be good : a memoir, Prince Shakur
When they tell you to be good : a memoir, Prince Shakur
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The item When they tell you to be good : a memoir, Prince Shakur represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 11 library branches.
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- Summary
- "After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince's father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family's secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to terms with one's inner self while confronting the steeped complexities of the Afro-diaspora. When They Tell You to Be Good charts Prince Shakur's political coming of age from closeted queer kid in a Jamaican family to radicalized adult traveler, writer, and anarchist in Obama and Trump's America. Shakur journeys from France to the Philippines, South Korea, and elsewhere to discover the depths of the Black experience, and engages in deep political questions while participating in movements like Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. By the end, Shakur reckons with his identity, his family's immigration to the US before his birth, and the intergenerational impacts of patriarchal and colonial violence. Examining a tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, When They Tell You to Be Good is a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves to be more than what America envisions for the oppressed and Shakur compels readers to take a closer, deeper look at the political world of young, Black, queer, and radical millennials today"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- When they tell you to be good : a memoir
- Title
- When they tell you to be good
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Prince Shakur
- Subject
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- Jamaican Americans
- Race relations
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- Shakur, Prince, 1994-
- United States
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueAfrican American authors
- African American gay men
- trueAfrican American gay men
- African American gay men -- Biography
- trueAfrican American political activists
- African American political activists
- African American political activists -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- HISTORY / United States / General
- trueHomophobia
- trueJamaican Americans
- Jamaican Americans -- Biography
- trueRace relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince's father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family's secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to terms with one's inner self while confronting the steeped complexities of the Afro-diaspora. When They Tell You to Be Good charts Prince Shakur's political coming of age from closeted queer kid in a Jamaican family to radicalized adult traveler, writer, and anarchist in Obama and Trump's America. Shakur journeys from France to the Philippines, South Korea, and elsewhere to discover the depths of the Black experience, and engages in deep political questions while participating in movements like Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. By the end, Shakur reckons with his identity, his family's immigration to the US before his birth, and the intergenerational impacts of patriarchal and colonial violence. Examining a tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, When They Tell You to Be Good is a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves to be more than what America envisions for the oppressed and Shakur compels readers to take a closer, deeper look at the political world of young, Black, queer, and radical millennials today"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Awards note
- Hurston/Wright Crossover Award Winner, 2021.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11085014
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1994-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shakur, Prince
- Dewey number
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- 305.896/97292073
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.J27
- LC item number
- S53 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Shakur, Prince
- Jamaican Americans
- African American gay men
- African American political activists
- United States
- African American gay men
- African American political activists
- Jamaican Americans
- Race relations
- United States
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Label
- When they tell you to be good : a memoir, Prince Shakur
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1304242302
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781953534422
- Lccn
- 2022020914
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1304242302
- Label
- When they tell you to be good : a memoir, Prince Shakur
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1304242302
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781953534422
- Lccn
- 2022020914
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1304242302
Subject
- Jamaican Americans
- Race relations
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- Shakur, Prince, 1994-
- United States
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueAfrican American authors
- African American gay men
- trueAfrican American gay men
- African American gay men -- Biography
- trueAfrican American political activists
- African American political activists
- African American political activists -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- HISTORY / United States / General
- trueHomophobia
- trueJamaican Americans
- Jamaican Americans -- Biography
- trueRace relations
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