Are there any books about the hoods? Ghettos? Life growing up

James Baldwin is OK

Jason Riley's Please Stop Helping (or something) is a bit of a neocon shill perspective but still pretty good for the autobiographical shit that doesn't glorify self-destructive nigger culture, like that worthless sack of shit Coates does

>>9312457

what genre is this? i can't find it at all

I want something like a memoir of growing up in the hood.ghettos of california or new york during the 80s/90s

iceberg slim and eldridge cleaver apparently deal with this type of stuff, though i haven't gotten around to either yet

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>>9312450
Welcome to Jamrock

>>9312450
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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>>9312467
Monster

>>9312450
why did they make ice cubes brother (forget his name) act like an oblivious idiot right before he died made it feel less like "oh what a tragedy" and more "what a dumbass"

Westsiders

>>9312562
The people who refused to read anything at my high school would actually open this one.

>>9312467
you want Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez jr.

The Warriors
Clockers

Read what David Simon wrote before he wrote The Wire and/or watch The Wire.

>>9312450
John Edgar Wideman
Alfredo Vea Jr.

>>9312450
Iceberg Slim

Dealer: Portrait of a Cocaine Merchant

Dopefiend by Donald Goines

my diary desu

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>>9312450
about half the short stories in Drown are that. Junot Diaz's first short story book.

pic related is an exaggerated, humorous story, but well written.

>>9312457
>James Baldwin is OK
All i read was Sonny's Blues, but it seemed pretty brilliant to me.

>>9312469
>iceberg slim
Pimp was pretty fascinating

>>9312450
not so black but Basketball Diaries is an amazing memoir about a poor 13-16 y/o heroin addict