Black Gangster
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A story of black organized crime follows Prince from his beginning as a teenage ganglord to his position as head of Detroit's powerful mob.
Donald Goines was een productief auteur van straatliteratuur, wiens rauwe en onversneden werken de realiteit van het leven in Amerikaanse achterstandswijken vastlegden. Zijn romans, vaak gesitueerd in Detroit, Los Angeles of New York, boden scherpe verkenningen van thema's als drugs, criminaliteit en raciale spanningen. Goines gebruikte meesterlijk een viscerale taal en een hoog tempo om meeslepende verhalen te creëren die zijn eigen ervaringen weerspiegelden. Door zijn schrijven, vaak onder het pseudoniem Al C. Clark, presenteerde hij een visie van de binnenstad als een slagveld waar personages vochten voor macht en overleving.





A story of black organized crime follows Prince from his beginning as a teenage ganglord to his position as head of Detroit's powerful mob.
The novel presents a raw and unfiltered narrative that captures the essence of urban life, influencing contemporary street literature and hip hop culture. Its revolutionary approach and vivid storytelling reflect the struggles and realities faced by marginalized communities, making it a significant work that resonates with modern readers and artists alike.
For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend. It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!
In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience-the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl s soul! Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. The she met Chink and discovered love and affection...and rape and murder!
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