- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
-
1 Bronx Beginnings -
2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage -
3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family -
4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets -
5 The South Bronx by Day and Night -
6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s -
7 The Rules of the Game -
8 The Lessons of Sex -
9 Gains and Losses -
10 1963 and Me -
11 What Women Want -
12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964 -
13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65 -
14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court -
15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin -
16 Welcome to Hell -
17 Shifting Loyalties -
18 The Road to The Tombs -
19 Do the Crime, Do the Time -
20 Judgment Day -
21 Free at Last! Free at Last … -
22 Cornwall Academy -
23 Summer Schooling -
24 Going to College -
25 College: Round II -
26 Passage to Europe -
27 Homecoming -
28 The Year of the French -
29 A New Life in Luxembourg -
30 Finding My Groove -
31 Standing on Higher Ground - Acknowledgments
Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Hell
- Chapter:
- (p.79) 16 Welcome to Hell
- Source:
- The Rat That Got Away
- Author(s):
ALLEN JONES
Mark Naison
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
Heroin was slowly taking over Allen Jones's life. Meanwhile, Bitch Queen Heroin was beginning to have a visible effect on his neighborhood as she asserted her dominion. While he was setting his sights low and focusing on what was happening right next to him, the average black man and woman were becoming politically aware and active in unprecedented ways. They were calling for civil rights, embracing black power, and beginning to protest the Vietnam War, an issue of particular concern to Jones and to every young black man in the city and in America at the time. Some brothers were joining the Black Panther Party and began wearing the signature leather jackets and black berets. Brothers and sisters all around the block could be seen reading Mao Zedong's Little Red Book and talking about communism. Gradually, his neighborhood was becoming a very different place from the one he grew up in.
Keywords: Allen Jones, Bitch Queen Heroin, civil rights, black power, Vietnam War, America, Black Panther Party, Mao Zedong, Little Red Book, communism
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
-
1 Bronx Beginnings -
2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage -
3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family -
4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets -
5 The South Bronx by Day and Night -
6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s -
7 The Rules of the Game -
8 The Lessons of Sex -
9 Gains and Losses -
10 1963 and Me -
11 What Women Want -
12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964 -
13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65 -
14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court -
15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin -
16 Welcome to Hell -
17 Shifting Loyalties -
18 The Road to The Tombs -
19 Do the Crime, Do the Time -
20 Judgment Day -
21 Free at Last! Free at Last … -
22 Cornwall Academy -
23 Summer Schooling -
24 Going to College -
25 College: Round II -
26 Passage to Europe -
27 Homecoming -
28 The Year of the French -
29 A New Life in Luxembourg -
30 Finding My Groove -
31 Standing on Higher Ground - Acknowledgments
