8 mile
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Crips
Eminem
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gang life
gangs
hip hop
hip hop activism
hip hop politics
Hustle & Flow
inner city
Lordly and Dame
robbery
self-discovery
the Crips
Universal Zulu Nation
urban fiction
urban literature
urban novel
We Got Issues!
white girl
whiteness
Product details
- ISBN 9780743287814
- Weight: 337g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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That White Girl is a fresh and hard-edged novel chronicling a young woman's quest for self-discovery while straddling two worlds, that of her middle-class Irish Catholic upbringing and her new family -- the Crips, America's notorious street gang.
What happens when a white girl flirts with the color lines and crosses the border into gang territory, where the bullets are in part real and the rules cannot be broken? JLove tells this incredible story inspired by her own remarkable life.
Amber, a fearless white girl, has a passion for rap lyrics and an addiction to graffiti, but her journey begins when she becomes immersed in the power and grind of gang life after holding a gun to an innocent man's head during a robbery.
That White Girl is a sharp and candid coming-of-age story, with hip-hop as its backdrop, that explores a young woman's struggles and triumphs as she crosses boundaries, discovers her own limits, and finds a new way to express herself in a world divided into black and white.
What happens when a white girl flirts with the color lines and crosses the border into gang territory, where the bullets are in part real and the rules cannot be broken? JLove tells this incredible story inspired by her own remarkable life.
Amber, a fearless white girl, has a passion for rap lyrics and an addiction to graffiti, but her journey begins when she becomes immersed in the power and grind of gang life after holding a gun to an innocent man's head during a robbery.
That White Girl is a sharp and candid coming-of-age story, with hip-hop as its backdrop, that explores a young woman's struggles and triumphs as she crosses boundaries, discovers her own limits, and finds a new way to express herself in a world divided into black and white.
JLOVE is the coauthor of We Got Issues! She has written for and been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Source, and Self magazine. She lives in Queens, New York. To learn more about JLove, please visit www.thatwhitegirl.com.
