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1. 1. Down These Mean Streets

   A Memoir

   

   A raw, firsthand memoir of a young Puerto Rican man growing up in Spanish Harlem, tracing his passage from childhood poverty and neighborhood violence through gang life, drug addiction, arrests and prison; it examines harsh encounters with racism and questions of racial and cultural identity while also detailing moments of tenderness, sexual discovery, and the slow, painful work of self-reckoning and redemption through education and conscience.

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