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Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him (Hardcover, 2024)
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- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781538740323
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Sito : an American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the story of one teenager. In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez--known as Sito-- was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories, and then the rest of the world moved on. But for the families of the slain teenagers, it was impossible to move on. And for Laurence Ralph, the stepfather of Sito's half-brother who had dedicated much of his academic career to studying gang-affiliated youth, Sito's murder forced him to revisit a subject of scholarly inquiry in a profoundly different, deeply personal way. Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family and as an Ivy League professor and expert on the entanglement of class and violence, SITO is an intimate story with an message about the lived experience of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately grace.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
153874032x
ISBN-13
9781538740323
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8061245529
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sito : an American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv9067.H6r35 2024
Reviews
" Sito is an extraordinary story of murder, grief, revenge, and the possibility of healing. With this beautifully written account, Laurence Ralph takes us to a place that is, at once, intimate and revealing. He calls into question his own ideals and scholarly conclusions as he confronts his family's loss and grief. And, in the end with the Orishas guiding his tongue, he offers a prayer that we all need to hear Heartwrenchingly complex. Sito is a powerful and moving book." -- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, "[A] gut-punch personal narrative with broader societal implications." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Ralph tells his story well. He avoids sentimentality. Nor does he pepper his prose with the kind of opaque language that so often dogs academic writing. ... "Sito" is a readable, empathic portrayal of a Hispanic teenager whose promising life was cut short because of failures in the criminal justice system and violence in the streets."-- New York Times, " Sito is a harrowing, impactful account of a teenager caught in a cycle of violence and the juvenile justice system that failed him."-- BookPage, starred review, "[T]he story is at once...a sociological academia, an account of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco, and an intimate look into generations of a close-knit family pushing against the stronghold of gang violence...The book, Ralph's third, follows two other ambitious nonfiction works...but "Sito" is his most personal yet."-- The San Francisco Chronicle, "With great care, skill, and nuance, acclaimed anthropologist Laurence Ralph tells the tragic story of nineteen-year-old Luis Alberto Quiñonez. Drawing on his pioneering research on race, policing, and violence, Ralph takes the reader on a powerful and moving journey that unveils the failures of the criminal justice system in the United States. While there is much to despair, Ralph leaves readers with a deep sense of hope--that the failures of the past can be corrected and that we can build a more just and equitable society where young people like Sito can survive and thrive."-- Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, "Through Sito's story, we begin to understand the structural inequities and generational traumas that form the backdrop to so many young lives." -- Booklist
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2023-036571
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