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Product Description: In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as ÂIâm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teenâ and ÂHonestly, Mom, chances are he wonât stay with you...read more
Hardcover:
9780520283411 | Univ of California Pr, February 6, 2015, cover price $65.00
Paperback:
9780520283428 | Univ of California Pr, February 6, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as ÂIâm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teenâ and ÂHonestly, Mom, chances are he wonât stay with you.
Paperback:
9781499509939 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 18, 2014, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: 66 is Linn-Benton Community College's Journal of Creative Writing and Art.
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThis provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.At the center of this riveting accountâbased on an unprecedented eighteen-year studyâare three engaging, streetwise brothers from Springfield, Massachusetts: Fausto, incarcerated for seven years and in and out of drug treatment, an insightful and sensitive street warrior playing on the edges of self-destruction; Julio, the family patriarch, a former gang member turned truck driver, fiercely loyal to his family and friends; and Sammy, a street maven, recovering drug addict, father of four, straddling two realmsâthe everyday world of low-wage work and the allure of the drug economyâas he shuttles between recovery and relapse. Timothy Black spent years with the brothers and their parents, wives and girlfriends, extended family, coworkers, criminal partners, friends, teachers, lawyers, and case workers. He closely observed street life in Springfield, including the drug trade; schools and GED programs; courtrooms, prisons, and drug treatment programs; and the young menâs struggle for employment both on and off the books. The brothers, articulate and determined, speak for themselves, providing powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. The result is a singularly detailed and empathetic portrait of men who are often regarded with fear or simply rendered invisible by society.With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
Hardcover:
9780307377746 | Pantheon Books, August 4, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThis provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Paperback:
9780307454874 | Vintage Books, August 24, 2010, cover price $16.95
Miscellaneous:
9780307378347 | Vintage Books, August 4, 2009, cover price $16.95
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