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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Black, Timothy.
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Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield.
Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- Economic conditions.
Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- Social life and customs.
Poor -- Massachusetts -- Springfield.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
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When a heart turns r...
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When a heart turns rock solid : the lives of three Puerto Rican brothers on and off the streets / Timothy Black.
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Black, Timothy.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
Subjects
Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield.
Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- Economic conditions.
Puerto Ricans -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- Social life and customs.
Poor -- Massachusetts -- Springfield.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780307377746
0307377741
Description:
xxxviii, 421 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
"I'm a Jíbaro, but I get my hair cut in the city" -- The lost generation -- Bilingual education and the school dropout -- The tail of the drug trade -- The block -- Leaving the streets -- Transitions -- The prison pipeline -- Rebel without a cause -- When a heart turns rock solid -- Good and bad.
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Employing a sociological storytelling method, Black, associate professor of sociology at the University of Hartford, recounts the lives of three Puerto Rican brothers living in poor, gang-dominated Springfield, Mass., whom he befriended and followed for 18 years. The book is not so much about the brothers--Julio, Fausto and Sammy--and their friends as it is about the cultural and social forces and the economic and political policies that in the latter decades of the 20th century determined the boys' fates and the fates of thousands of others. Flawed bilingual education programs doomed them to virtual illiteracy, while harsh drug laws warehoused them in a rapidly expanding prison system. While the author provided concrete forms of assistance--especially for the two younger brothers, who battled addiction--the pull of the street as well as the inadequacy of their education led to failed or marginally productive lives, even for the motivated eldest son, Julio.
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