Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises

Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises is a 2004 collection of essays by Miles Marshall Lewis. It was published by Akashic Books.

Contents

 * I. Memory Lanes, Gun Hill Roads
 * Bronx Science
 * Famous Negro Writer #77
 * The Suckerpunch of My Childhood Files
 * Mama's Gun
 * Worldwide Underground


 * II. The Def of Hiphop
 * Peace, Unity, Love, Having Fun
 * Notes Toward a Hiphop Politick
 * Appeared first in 2003 in The Nation under the title "Russell Simmons's Rap."
 * Spelmo Babies and Other Bourgeois Ephemera
 * Appeared first in 1997 in LA Weekly under the title "All About the Benjamins."
 * Go Make of All Disciples
 * Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
 * Another Great Day in Harlem
 * Appeared first in 1998 in XXL under the title "Hip-Hop America."