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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
Fist Stick Knife Gun A Personal History of Violence Author:Geoffrey Canada, Jamar Nicholas (Illustrator) When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked -- and to some degree protected -- through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. — Weaving in and out of his stark storytelling is a cogent anaylsis of how the com... more »plicity of gun manufacturers turned this contained violence into today's world of drive-by shootings and automatic weapons.
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