Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D. by Victor M. Rios

Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D.

Victor M. Rios

126 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction memoir sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Victor Rios grew up in Oakland, California in a single parent household, in poverty and on welfare. He joined a gang at the age of thirteen and by age sixteen he had dropped out of school and had been incarcerated several times. Having witnessed t...

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