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    White Boy
    White Boy
    White Boy
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    White Boy

    By Seymour Butts

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    Jamaal is a mild mannered house husband from the suburbs of Chicago. A chance encounter in a jewelry store with a beautiful women launches him on a journey through the cities roughest neighborhoods. He falls in love, creates brotherhoods, and experiences deep loss. Most importantly he experiences first hand the devastating effects the war on drugs and mass incarceration has reaped upon the people he has come to love, and the damning ignorance of those born with his own privilege.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeymour Butts
    Release dateJan 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370177660
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