Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 2006 Edition: Holy Ghost
Preface: “I Always Wanted to Make a Book Out of My Life”: In Search of Tupac
Childhood Chains, Adolescent Aspirations
Chapter 1: Dear Mama - Motherhood and a Hood’s Mother
Chapter 2: The Son of a Panther - A Postrevolutionary Childhood
Chapter 3: No Malcolm in My History Text - School, Learning, and Tupac’s Books
Portraits of an Artist
Chapter 4: Give Me a Paper and a Pen - Tupac’s Place in Hip-Hop
Chapter 5: For All the Real Niggas Out There - Authenticity Blues
Bodies and Beliefs
Chapter 6: Do We Hate Our Women? - Female Per Versions
Chapter 7: But Do the Lord Care? - God, Suffering, Compassion, and Death in the Ghetto
Chapter 8: I Got Your Name Tatted on My Arm - Reading the Black Body
Epilogue: How Long Will They Mourn Me?: Posthumous Presences of a Ghetto Saint
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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