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Words for My Comrades

Dean Van Nguyen
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781399615457
  • Weight: 400g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 07 May 2026
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Featured on NPR's Books We Love 2025

'An astounding achievement' MARCUS J. MOORE
'Learned [and] compassionate' THE TIMES
'A must-read' IRISH TIMES

Before his murder at twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the pre-eminent storyteller of the 1990s. He recorded several platinum-selling albums, starred in major films and became an activist and political hero known the world over. In this extraordinary cultural history, Dean Van Nguyen reckons with Tupac's coming of age, fame and influence and how the political machinations that shaped him as a boy have since buoyed his legacy as a icon.

Drawing upon conversations with the people who bore witness, Words for My Comrades tells the story of how the energy of the Black political movement was subsumed by consumer culture - and how America produced, in Tupac and his Black Panther mother Afeni, two of its most iconic revolutionaries.
About Dean Van Nguyen
Dean Van Nguyen is an Irish-Vietnamese writer, journalist, and critic covering music, culture, identity, race relations, and left wing politics. He has written for Irish Times, the Guardian, the Independent, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, Uproxx, Wax Poetics, Jacobin and more. He writes a monthly music column for the Dublin Inquirer and a column on new reissues for Bandcamp Daily. In 2019, he published Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah, a collection of essays on New York rapper that blends music criticism, cultural examination, and personal appreciation.

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