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1	Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez see all copies from £6.14! new only from £8.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Republic of East L.A.: Stories more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez From the award-winning author of "Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. It is a life brimming with hope and vitality, the depiction of which reaffirms Luis J. Rodriguez as not only one of America's keenest urbanists but as a writer with a perfect blendof humanist empathy and poetic soul.Behind ... see all copies from £6.08! new only from £8.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The History of Barrios Unidos: Healing Community Violence more books like this by Frank de Jesus Acosta, Henry A J Ramos (Editor), Luis Rodriguez (Foreword by) This is the compelling story of Barrios Unidos, the Santa Cruz-based organization founded to prevent gang violence amongst inner-city ethnic youth. An evolving grass-roots organization that grew out of the Mexican-American civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Barrios Unidos harnessed the power of culture and spirituality to ... see all copies from £10.59! new only from £10.63!
4	La Vida Loca: El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez In the tradition of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "Manchild in the Promised Land" comes an explosive memoir of hopelessness and resurrection that vividly portrays the brutality of barrio gang life. A timely exploration into the roots of Latino rage. see all copies from £5.98! new only from £6.49!
5	Always Running more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez An account of growing up Chicano in the late 1960s and early 1970s. see all copies from £6.83! new only from £28.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Si, Se Puede! more books like this by Diana Cohn, Francisco Delgado (Illustrator), Luis J Rodriguez Told in English and Spanish, this picture book tells the true story of the April 2000 strike by Los Angeles janitors. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from £8.18! new only from £9.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Music of the Mill more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez In a story of three generations of an American family who built their lives around a decaying, late-twentieth-century steel industry, thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido struggles with the cancer death of her father, the racial polarization of their community, and the corrupt power struggles among her n see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Republica de East La, La: Cuentos more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez Vivid cameos, pungent slices of street life, and cutting insights into the barrio and the underbelly of Los Angeles's Eastside are just a few of the treasures in this remarkable collection: tender stories ringing with a truth fresh enough to challenge the imagination and satisfy the soul. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46!
9	The Concrete River more books like this by Luis J. Rodriguez The author of the memoir "Always Running", about growing up Chicano in L.A., writes about that experience again in this collection of poetry. see all copies from £7.32! new only from £9.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	My Nature Is Hunger: New and Selected Poems 1989-2004 more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez "This poetry is of the barrio yet stubbornly refuses to be confined in it-RodrA-guez's perceptive gaze and storyteller's gift transport his world across neighborhood boundaries."-"Publishers Weekly" on "Trochemoche" "While filled with the heart and words of Chicano culture, RodrA-guez's poems transcend the scope of race and ethnicity. The topics ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £10.22!
11	Musica de la Aceria by Luis J Rodriguez Mientras el boom cultural e industrial de la Segunda Guerra Mundial dio a luz una nueva California, surgio a su vez una poderosa industria de acero, y con ella vino el potencial de cumplir los suenos modestos de los trabajadores dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas en el calor feroz de la aceria. Para los Salcidos, la aceria de Nazareth se ... see all copies from £5.59! new only from £7.31!
12 view cover	Powerlines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex more books like this by Julie Parson-Nesbitt (Editor), Luis J Rodriguez (Editor), Michael Warr (Editor) see all copies from £7.14! new only from £11.05! \| first editions
13 view cover	Poems Across the Pavement more books like this by Luis J. Rodriguez, Gamaliel Ramirez (Illustrator) see all copies from £10.89! new only from £15.20! \| first editions
14 view cover	It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: A Barrio Story more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez, Daniel Galvez (Illustrator) Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life. see all copies from £6.42! new only from £23.07!
15 view cover	It Doesn't Have To Be This Way / No Tiene Que Ser Asi: A Barrio Story more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez, Daniel Galvez (Illustrator) Monchi likes to write poems, hang out with his cousin, and tell stories to his uncle. Then one day, a member of the local gang tells him it's time to join up. Monchi is scared but excited. The older boys give him the handshake, girls talk to him, and even teachers are afraid of him. But when a tragic event changes everything, Monchi must make an ... see all copies from £6.46! new only from £6.46!
16 view cover	Dream of a Word: A Tia Chucha Press Anthology more books like this by Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor), Toni Asante Lightfoot (Editor), Luis J Rodriguez (Foreword by) Since 1989, Tia Chucha Press has been a leader in publishing artistically innovative and culturally provocative voices in poetry. The roster of poets the Press has brought to publication reflects a deep commitment to diversity and features established artists, such as Elizabeth Alexander, Virgil Suarez, and Diane Glancy, as well as first books by ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £11.05!
17 view cover	Soul Talk: Urban Youth Poetry: A Writing Project Featuring Syracuse City School District Students more books like this by M Kristina Montero (Editor), Luis J Rodriguez (Introduction by) see all copies from £7.93! new only from £7.93!
18	Opus Dei in the church : an ecclesiological study of the life and apostolate of Opus Dei more books like this by Pedro Rodriguez, Fernando Ocáriz, José Luis Illanes, Opus Dei see all copies from £6.80! new only from £36.41!
19 view cover	Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The West Indian Immigrant Worker Experience in Puerto Rico, 1800-1850 more books like this by Jorge Luis Chinea, FC)LIX V Matos Rodriguez Series Editor (Foreword by) Chinea examines the social, economic, and political impact of foreign immigrants in Puerto Rico during its transition from subsistence farming and ranching in the late 18th century to commercial agriculture during the first half of the 19th century. He provides an island-wide assessment of how the capital, labor, and specialized skills of European ... see all copies from £35.32! new only from £35.32!
20 view cover	Trochemoche: Poems by Luis Rodrguez more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez, Luis J Rodrc-Guez, Luis J Rodrguez TROCHEMOCHE means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodriquez's poetry. Drawing on more than ten years of poems, Rodriguez writes powerfully and passionately about urban youth, family, and the plight of neglected communities, while exploring the rich cultural ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions more books like this by James A Arnold, A James Arnold (Editor), Julio Rodriguez-Luis (Editor) see all copies from £104.50! new only from £104.50!
22	Upstarts, wanderers or swindlers : anatomy of the Picaro : a critical anthology more books like this by Gustavo Pellon, Julio Rodriguez-Luis see all copies from £19.06! new only from £52.63!
23 view cover	Soldier of the Cross more books like this by Jorge Luis Rodriguez see all copies from £7.93! new only from £7.93!
24 view cover	Reina de La Vida more books like this by Benigno S Nieto see all copies from £7.75!
25 view cover	Amrica Is Her Name more books like this by Luis J Rodriguez, Luis J Rodrc-Guez, Luis J Rodrguez A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, America Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet. see all copies from £8.11! new only from £12.00! \| first editions

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