Conversate is not a word getting away from ghetto

Summary: Explores what is wrong with black culture and what needs to be done to fix neighbourhoods and improve lives. This title provides a window into the complex, contradictory perspectives that exist within every member of the black community while also offering comic anecdotes.

Record details

ISBN: 9781569765500 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1569765502 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781556527807 (pbk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xiii, 190 p.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index. Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Duality: the war within -- C is for crap: standards, schmandards -- They don't know any better? -- Call the mayor, then pick up the trash yourself: trash as caste? -- If you're gonna hang on the corner all day, take a book (mitigate your damages) -- It takes a village, my ass -- "Ghetto fabulous" is an oxymoron -- Growing pains: where are the leaders? -- The talented tenth has let us down -- Doing the best I can with what I got.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.