{"product_id":"dean-van-nguyen-words-for-my-comrades-a-political-history-of-tupac-shakur-paperback","title":"Dean Van Nguyen: Words For My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhite Rabbit, 2025, Paperback, 464 pages, 24 x 16.5cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this cultural history and brilliantly researched biography, Dean Van Nguyen reckons with Tupac's coming of age, fame and influence and how the political machinations that shaped him as a boy have since buoyed his legacy as a revolutionary following the George Floyd uprising. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWords for My Comrades\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e crucially engages with the influence of Tupac's mother, Afeni, whose role in the Black Panther Party, with its dedication to dismantling American imperialism and police brutality, informed Tupac's art. Tupac's childhood as a son of the Panthers, coupled with the influence of his militant stepfather Mutulu Shakur, became his own riveting code of ethics that helped listeners reckon with America's inherent injustices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon conversations with the people who bore witness - from Panther veterans and other committed Marxist revolutionaries of 1970s America, to good friends and close collaborators of the rapper himself - Van Nguyen demonstrates how Tupac became one of the most enduring musical legends in hip-hop history and how intimately his name is threaded with the legacy of Black Panther politics. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWords for My Comrades\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of how the energy of the Black political movement was subsumed by culture and how America produced, in Tupac and Afeni, two of its most iconic, enduring revolutionaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9781584351115 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-in-series\"\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#alsoinseries\" id=\"alsoinseries\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot series-also-in 9781584351115 isbn-related show\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-series-also-in\" id=\"in-series\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58177030291840,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81B0Y5IVraL._SY522.jpg?v=1752063565","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/dean-van-nguyen-words-for-my-comrades-a-political-history-of-tupac-shakur-paperback","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}