Down These Mean Streets

Down These Mean Streets
by Piri Thomas

Down These Mean Streets
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Author: Piri Thomas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1974-03-12
ISBN: 0394719840
Number of pages: 357
Publisher: Vintage

Summary of Down These Mean Streets

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author recalls his early experiences with poverty and discrimination, his involvement with drugs and gangs, and his prison sentence for armed robbery which led to his rehabilitation and work with street gangs and drug addicts.
The 30th anniversary edition of this classic memoir about growing up in Spanish Harlem includes an afterword reminding us that its streets are even meaner now, thanks to crack cocaine and the dismantling of government poverty programs. As a dark-skinned Puerto Rican, born in 1928, Piri Thomas faced with painful immediacy the absurd contradictions of America's racial attitudes (among people of all colors) in a time of wrenching social change. Three decades have not dimmed the luster of his jazzy prose, rich in Hispanic rhythms and beat-generation slang.

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