Hearts and Hands, Second Edition by Luis Rodriguez
Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by 30 years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodrguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material gain when we incarcerate or marginalise people already on the edge of society.Luis J. is the son of Mexican immigrants. Rodriguez has earned national acclaim as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book author, and critic since he began writing in his early teens. Rodriguez helped develop Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, and is currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and worldwide level.READER BIO The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez has earned national acclaim as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book author, and critic since he began writing in his early teens. Rodriguez, who is currently working as a gang peacemaker on a national and international level, was instrumental in the establishment of Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609805531 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609805534 |
| Title | Hearts and Hands, Second Edition |
| Author | Luis Rodriguez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2014-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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