Ghetto Brother - Warrior to Peacemaker

Julian Voloj, Claudia Ahlering

NBM ComicsLit

2015

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781561639489

Winner of:
2016 In the Margins Book Award
2016 Booklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels
2017 Maverick Graphic Novel List

An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he managed to extract an incredibly positive energy from this riot ridden era: his multiracial gang promoted peace rather than violence. After initiating a gang truce, the Ghetto Brothers held weekly concerts on the streets or in abandoned buildings, which fostered the emergence of hip-hop. Melendez also began to reclaim his Jewish roots after learning about his family's dramatic crypto-Jewish background.

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1 (Ruim)

Ghetto Brother 🔫🧢

𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚: O livro retrata a unificação das gangues no Harlem na visão de um dos líderes e fundadores de uma delas, não gostei muito do livro ter sido tratado como se o lado de um dos envolvidos fosse a verdade incontestável.
Um dos pontos do livro foi a descoberta que os pais de Benji eram marranos (judeus escondidos), achei que foi pouco aprofundado e que caricaturas de Jesus Cristo atacaram demais minha fé de uma maneira um tanto agressiva.