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- W2503669952 abstract "In his poetry collection The Concrete River (1991), Luis J. Rodriguez dedicates his poem “Mean Streets” to New York Puerto Rican author Piri Thomas. “Mean Streets” initiates a literary conversation between Rodriguez and Thomas, as men who grew up in conditions of poverty during turbulent times in the history of the United States. The poem establishes the two men as “barrio brothers” on the basis of space, economic hardship, writing, and mentorship as unifying discourses. At the outset of the poem, Rodriguez connects the mean streets of Harlem of Thomas’s youth with his own mean streets of East Los Angeles through the publication of Thomas’s memoir, Down These Mean Streets (1967). As a young man growing up prior to the civil rights era of the 1960s, Rodriguez connects the prior racism and discrimination of Thomas’s youth in Harlem to his own. Throughout the remainder of the poem the writings of Thomas structure the relationship between the two men. Through Thomas’s writings on the waste of impoverished urban youth, gripped by drugs and violence, in Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand (1972) and the prison experience in Seven Long Times (1974), Rodriguez comes to understand his own experiences of drugs, violence, and prison. He concludes that as his “barrio brother, father/partner and teacher” Thomas has allowed him to pass through the “gateway” from Piri’s “nightmare” to his own “dreams.” Thus the literary dialogue and metaphor of “Mean Streets” serves as a point of departure to compare the uses of community and mentorship as key discourses of the redemptive activist work in the lives and works of Thomas and Rodriguez." @default.
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- W2503669952 title "“Hung on a Ghetto Cross”" @default.
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