Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times - Couverture rigide

Rodriguez, Luis

 
9781583222638: Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times
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ISBN 10 : 1583222634 ISBN 13 : 9781583222638
Editeur : Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

Book by Rodriguez Luis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material gain when we incarcerate or marginalize people already on the edge of society. His interest in dissolving gang influence on black and latino kids is personal as well as societal; his son, to whom he dedicates Hearts and Hands, is currently serving a prison sentence for gang-related activity. With anecdotes, interviews, and time-tested guidelines, Hearts and Hands makes a powerful argument for building and supporting community life.

Biographie de l'auteur

Best known for his autobiographical Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., LUIS RODRIGUEZ has written for The Nation, Grand Street, and the Los Angeles Weekly, among others. Winner of a National Book Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for poetry, Rodríguez is also the founder of Tía Chucha Press, which publishes emerging socially conscious poets. He lives in San Fernando, California, with his wife, Trina and their family. In 2014, Rodriguez was named Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles.


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Éditeur
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1583222634
ISBN 13 
9781583222638
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
365
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781583225646: Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1583225641 ISBN 13 :  9781583225646
Editeur : Seven Stories Press, 2003
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