TY  - JOUR
T1  - VIolence in the lives of inner-city youth in the united states
AU  - Schaechter J, Brosco JP
Y1  - 2011/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.288
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 183
EP  - 184
VL  - 165
IS  - 2
N2  - 
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.”

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.288
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.288
ER  -