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Gaikokujin - The Story: Hip Hop, Race, and Pursuing the American Dream
by Takuan Amaru https://amzn.to/4g4LRM5
๐ฏ "This was an interesting story. It was not your usual "growing up different than your friends" kind of tale."๐ฏ
ๅค้ปไบบ is a spiritual rags to riches adventure. A confused son trying to appease his angry father, like so many neglected children, Takuan was a stranger in his own home. This led to his search for a surrogate family in the streetโmainly at the local basketball courts. A sanctuary for teens, the courts served as a personal mental-health facility. Amidst the laughter, fun, fights, and tension provided by his peers, not only did he get โschooledโ by playground legends, even more significant were the off-the-court tutorials by older playboys and pushers on the neighborhood value system: which was how to get over on society. After learning how to โmake a dollar out of fifteen centsโ Tak was heading down a tried-and-true path for disaster. Part memoir, part historical treatise, and part survivorโs guide, the perspective of a โmixed-raceโ child is articulated along with the slang-jargon, musical references, and pivotal news stories of the 1970s and โ80s to paint a vivid landscape of the times that can be seen, heard, and almost touched.
