RT Journal
A1 Schaechter J, Brosco JP
T1 VIolence in the lives of inner-city youth in the united states
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2011
FD February 1
VO 165
IS 2
SP 183
OP 184
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.288
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.288
AB 
Geoffrey Canada, educator and founder of the Harlem's Children's Zone, has been widely lauded as a hero in his own time. Canada's seminal work, “Fist Stick Knife Gun,” was first published in 1995 and remains a riveting instructional read for anyone working with inner-city youth. Canada uses his own life and work to starkly portray the realities of life, death, and violence in our cities. Illuminating the hard concrete environment and severely limited choices in which some children are raised, Canada speaks harsh truths. “Most young people are interested in surviving the war, but the price they pay is being prepared to kill or be killed . . . young people have figured out that the best way not to be shot is to shoot first . . . especially if adults, police, and parents seem incapable of protecting you.”