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Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2013-11-26

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.

Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. In this candid and riveting memoir, Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner. "If you wonder how a fourteen-year-old can shoot another child his own age in the head and then go home to dinner," Canada writes, "you need to know you don't get there in a day, or week, or month. It takes years of preparation to be willing to commit murder, to be willing to kill or die for a corner, a color, or a leather jacket."

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Everbind
Release Date : 2011-04-01

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Everbind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with categories.

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1995

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.

A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner. A Teacher's Guide for this book is available.

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Everbind
Release Date : 2011-04

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Everbind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with categories.

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : E Canada
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1995

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by E Canada and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.

Recreating his childhood world in the South Bronx and examining current crime legislation, the author offers an analysis of how a chain of events set in motion by 1960s drug laws has led to the child violence on the streets today

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Everbind
Release Date : 2011-04

Fist Stick Knife Gun written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Everbind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with categories.

Pockets Of Crime

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Author : Peter K. B. St. Jean
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15

Pockets Of Crime written by Peter K. B. St. Jean and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Social Science categories.

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighborhood disorder—such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings—makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean argues that we cannot fully understand the impact of these factors without considering that, because urban space is unevenly developed, different kinds of crimes occur most often in locations that offer their perpetrators specific advantages. Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and extensive interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city’s highest-crime areas, St. Jean demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers, for example, are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. By accounting for these important factors of spatial positioning, he expands upon previous research to provide the most comprehensive explanation available of why crime occurs where it does.

All Souls

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Author : Michael Patrick MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2010-07-28

All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.

Reaching Up For Manhood

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Author : Geoffrey Canada
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2000-11-07

Reaching Up For Manhood written by Geoffrey Canada and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-07 with Family & Relationships categories.

From a troubled youth navigating the mean streets of the South Bronx to an inspiring educational activist who evokes praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, Geoffrey Canada has made a remarkable personal journey that cemented his dedication to underserved youth. His award-winning work was featured in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman,” and he has been hailed by media, activists, teachers, and national leaders. Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” and Oprah Winfrey refers to him as “an angel from God.” Here, Canada draws on his years of work with inner-city youth and on his own turbulent boyhood to offer a moving and revelatory look at the little-understood emotional lives of boys. And who better for this task than the man Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times calls “one of this country’s leading advocates for youth.”

Whatever It Takes

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Author : Paul Tough
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2009-09-10

Whatever It Takes written by Paul Tough and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-10 with Social Science categories.

New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa" (The Washington Post). What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents. Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.