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Streetwise gangster Smooth normally has all of his bases covered. But a breach within his organization hints that he might be losing his touch. The traitors’ actions result in Smooth being arrested and tossed in the Federal Pen. Leaving his lover and partner in crime China all alone. She tried to coax him into going straight. Maybe he should've listened? But the worst is yet to come. Without Smooth in the picture his rivals now see an opening. One that begins and ends with eliminating China. However her biggest threat may come from a completely unexpected source. A threat so deceptive and unique... even someone as shrewd and perceptive as China could be fatally seduced by its charms.
"From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, a timely and compelling look at how liberals use bullying toward their opponents on today's top political issues"--
While his lover and partner in crime China sits behind bars. Street hustler Smooth is doing his best to keep a grip on their criminal empire. Pushing three times as much product and doing twice as many jobs. In hopes of maintaining something for his woman to come back to. But the appearance of a mysterious beauty, throws a sudden wrinkle into his design. Smooth's occasional vulnerability to her charms begin to pose an existential threat not just to he and China's long-standing relationship. But also to his stranglehold on long-owned turf. As Smooth loses more and more focus on business, the streets erupt in all out warfare. Meanwhile... China's release rapidly approaches, leaving Smooth with much to sort out. If he doesn't do some prompt 'tidying up' enemies both new and old could come gunning for her the moment her feet hit the pavement. With Smooth himself being next on their list. Perhaps... this was all a part of 'someones' plan all along?
Ex-marines, turned local police officers, are still chasing the war rush, they got in combat. Now applying their skills to take down king pins and criminals, in cities and States outside of their own, to appease their craving for adrenaline rush. However, in the midst of their night time secret life, a undercover drug task force detective was killed. As marines never wanting to compromise, they continued on with their night sprees, that took the life of female bystander and inspiring model. What they didn't know, she's the sister of Mexico's most notorious and violent cartel boss, who vowed to avenge his sister's death, by any means. At the same time, the F. B. I. is also closing in on this organized ring of crime, that interfered with their investigations of these king pins and criminals. Forcing these trained Marines to improvise, in order to survive and prevail from this tortuous and deadly situation.
Most texts on classical social theory offer exhaustive coverage of every possible theorist, making it difficult to use the book in one semester. Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition represents a departure from this approach by offering solid coverage of the classical triumvirate (Marx, Durkheim, and Weber), but also extending the canon strategically to include Simmel, four early female theorists, and the writings of Du Bois. The result is a manageable, but thorough, examination of the key classical theorists. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes two new chapters: one on Weber and rationalization, and one on Du Bois and his writings on race. A new concluding chapter links classical theory to current developments in capitalism during an age of austerity.
The irony of this book is to show that fifty years after the 1963 civil rights movement, blacks are still experiencing the same types of problems they experienced in 1963. She talks about how as a college administrator she experienced some of the same types of situations she experienced thirty years earlier when she worked in the motion picture industry at Warner Brothers Studios. In her book, she talks about the Jim Crow laws and the Stand Your Ground laws. She also talks about President Obama's challenges in becoming the first black president of the United States and his reelection. Her primary point is that there has not been enough change in the area of racial equality in the last fifty years.
The time has come. China, one half of a powerful street criminal duo with her lover and partner Smooth... is a free woman. Once released from jail it's only a matter of time before she authorizes a series of moves which lead to her regaining her position as top B-I-T-C-H. Her homecoming doesn't play out without a rough patch however. Her 'other half' Smooth was deceived while China was on the inside. Led astray, and now... is beside himself with dark thoughts. Thoughts that are also intertwined with deep feelings of rage and vengeance. China knows he is no good to her in his current frame of mind. Especially as a bloody turf war continues to rage on the streets on Chicago... mostly thanks to Smooth taking his eye off the ball while China was away. For the foreseeable future China will be pulling double duty. Running the crew solo while her partner in life, and crime gets his head together. The future of their organization now rests on China's ability to command respect from underlings, eliminate a rogue gallery of deadly enemies, and ultimately... avenge her lover’s betrayal.
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson explains that this noxious, blaming mind-set has destroyed the black family, magnified racial tensions, pitted women against men, and quashed a sense of paternal responsibility—which in essence has killed the soul of the black community. For a half-century or more, black people have labored under the spell of what Jesse Lee Peterson calls the "alchemists." These are the race hustlers, media hacks, politicians, community organizers, and the like who promise to "fundamentally transform" America. The transformation they promise, however, produces only fool's gold—unearned benefits like welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, payouts from lawsuits, and maybe one...
This volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, and cultural change in the digital age.
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.