This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools,
the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a
generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first
century.
At the center of this riveting account-based on an unprecedented
eighteen-year study-are three engaging, streetwise brothers from
Springfield, Massachusetts: Fausto, incarcerated for seven years
and in and out of drug treatment, an insightful and sensitive
street warrior playing on the edges of self-destruction; Julio, the
family patriarch, a former gang member turned truck driver,
fiercely loyal to his family and friends; and Sammy, a street
maven, recovering drug addict, father of four, straddling two
realms-the everyday world of low-wage work and the allure of the
drug economy-as he shuttles between recovery and relapse.
Timothy Black spent years with the brothers and their parents,
wives and girlfriends, extended family, coworkers, criminal
partners, friends, teachers, lawyers, and case workers. He closely
observed street life in Springfield, including the drug trade;
schools and GED programs; courtrooms, prisons, and drug treatment
programs; and the young men's struggle for employment both on and
off the books. The brothers, articulate and determined, speak for
themselves, providing powerful testimony to the exigencies of life
lived on the social and economic margins. The result is a
singularly detailed and empathetic portrait of men who are often
regarded with fear or simply rendered invisible by society.
With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces
and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on
some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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