Set the Record Straight: African American Experience, Artistry, and Legacy - The Ghetto Bible
By Vernon Snell
Length2h 41m
About this audiobook
Set the Record Straight: The Ghetto Bible is Vernon Snell’s raw testimony of survival, identity, race, artistry, and life in Washington Heights during an era shaped by the War on Drugs, poverty, immigration, policing, music, family, and the streets. Told through Poetic Cinema, the book transforms lived experience into a living archive—combining stories, rap, open-mic testimony, analysis, Benson’s poetic voice, Vernon’s reflections, and Curator museum notes. From childhood memories and hustling to motherhood, loss, systemic inequality, entrepreneurship, and survival, Snell challenges the versions of history often told by outsiders. This is not simply memoir or poetry. It is a Ghetto Bible: one man setting the record straight about the people, pain, beauty, contradictions, and resilience that existed behind the headlines.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, History
Length2 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
2Dedication
3Letter to the Reader
4Acknowledgments
5First-Hand Testimony: Washington Heights
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6Introduction
7How to Read This Book
8About the Author
9Poetic cinema
10Farewell
11Exhibit: Deep Inside (House Nights)
12Exhibit: Deep Inside (House Nights)
13Exhibit: 24 Wingate (Castle of Survival)
14Exhibit: 24 Wingate (Castle of Survival)
15Exhibit: My Wrist, My Risk (Yonkers
16Exhibit: My Wrist, My Risk (Yonkers Triumph)
17Exhibit: Remember Those Ventures
18Exhibit: Remember Those Ventures (Beauty & the Beast Roads)
19Exhibit: Iron Horse Breakdance (Times
20Exhibit: Iron Horse Breakdance (Times Square Hustle)
21Exhibit: Brother on Both Sides (Bea & the
22Exhibit: Brother on Both Sides (Bea & the Black Knight)
23Exhibit: Bling & the Black Knight (Love in
24Exhibit: Bling & the Black Knight (Love in the Hustle)
25Exhibit: Flip the Script (Provider & Pawn)
26Exhibit: Flip the Script (Provider & Pawn)
27Exhibit: Systemic Trap & Street Poets
28Exhibit: Systemic Trap & Street Poets (Crowning the Heights)
29Exhibit: Risks, Bricks & The Invisible Game
30Exhibit: Risks, Bricks & The Invisible Game
31Exhibit: Welfare Blues (The Brain Game)
32Exhibit: Welfare Blues (The Brain Game)
33Exhibit: Scarface Signals (Master Plan in
34Exhibit: Scarface Signals (Master Plan in the Hood)
35Exhibit: Boots & Hoodies (Prayers in the
36Exhibit: Boots & Hoodies (Prayers in the Heights)
37Exhibit: Boots & Hoodies (Prayers in the
38Exhibit: Boots & Hoodies (Prayers in the Heights)
39Exhibit: Mr. Media – Lies on the Screen
40Exhibit: Mr. Media – Lies on the Screen
41Exhibit: Bad Days, Bad Places, Beautiful
42Exhibit: Bad Days, Bad Places, Beautiful Faces
43Exhibit: Mr. Red, White & Blue
44Exhibit: Mr. Red, White & Blue
45Exhibit: “Thank You Welfare” (Mother’s
46Exhibit: “Thank You Welfare” (Mother’s Story)
47Exhibit: “Death for the Poor”
48Exhibit: “Death for the Poor”
49Exhibit: “Thank You, America”
50Exhibit: “Thank You, America”
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