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Fist stick knife gun, Geoffrey Canada (1995) - Violence and Youth in America
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FIST, STICK, KNIFE, GUN: VIOLENCE & YOUTH IN AMERICA Introduction In Fist stick knife gun, Geoffrey Canada (1995) traces his own encounters with urban violence as he was growing up in a poor, predominantly African-American neighborhood in the Bronx during the 1960s. Canada (1995) paints a vivid picture of a community of children and teenagers whose conduct was governed by codes of violence. He traces the progression of his own violent behavior as well as those of his contemporaries. Despite his own background and experiences in the violent world of the New York urban ghetto of the 1960s and the Boston urban ghetto (where Canada worked as a teacher) of the late-1970s, Canada (1995) is stunned by how much violence has escalated when he returns as a teacher and community activist to New York City in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Canada (1995) viewed his former neighborhoods as nothing less than...
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