Fist Stick Knife Gun A Personal History of Violence

Name: Fist Stick Knife Gun A Personal History of Violence
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ISBN: 9780807004234

ISBN-10: 0807004235

ISBN-13: 9780807004234

Edition: 1996

Authors: Geoffrey Canada, Jamar Nicholas

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When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Weaving in and out of his stark storytelling is a cogent anaylsis of how the complicity of gun manufacturers turned this contained violence into today's world of drive-by shootings and automatic weapons. A Teacher's Guide for this book is available. "The vignettes band together with a kind of clarifying momentum, so that the result is something more. . . . A beacon." --New York Times Book Review "A more powerful depiction of the tragic life of…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/9/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Codes of Conduct






























A Matter of Time


















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