The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

Focuses on three street gang memoirs memoirs - Shakur's Monster; Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.; and Stanley “Tookie” Williams' Blue Rage, Black Redemption. Metcalf examines the conflict among violence, thrilling sensationalism, and the authorial desire to instruct and warn competing within these works.