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Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas.
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Critical Essay by Nelson Aldrich
The truthfulness of Down These Mean Streets goes beyond autobiographical integrity to illuminate not only that dubious concept, "the culture of poverty,"...
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Critical Essay by Larry Garvin
Down These Mean Streets for me … is an account of the victory of innocent values over a dehumanizing environment.
This innocence comes from Piri's complete...
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Critical Essay by Cathy Clancy
Piri Thomas's ability to combine in a character youthful innocence with street wisdom, an ability so well displayed in Down These Mean Streets, sometimes fails hi...
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Critical Essay by Daniel Stern
[The literary qualities of "Down These Mean Streets"] are primitive. Yet it has an undeniable power that I think comes from the fact that it is a report fr...
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Critical Essay by James Nelson Goodsell
["Down These Mean Streets"] is both vigorous and compelling. A very uneven book, it is nonetheless consistently readable….
"Down The...
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Critical Essay by Elmer Bendiner
Piri Thomas in his autobiography, Down These Mean Streets, describes the passionate, painful search to validate his manhood for which, with dead-pan cool, he had to fi...
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Critical Essay by Robert P. Haro
Get this book as soon as possible. That's the best advice this reviewer can give. Savior, Savior Hold My Hand will be called urban ethnic history, social psycho...
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Critical Essay by James B. Lane
Down These Mean Streets dramatically captured and transmitted the reality of growing up in the Puerto Rican "Barrio" district of New York during the 1940s...
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Critical Essay by George Anderson
For those familiar with Down These Mean Streets, reading Piri Thomas' new book, Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand is an interesting but disappointing experience...
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Critical Essay by William Kennedy
[Down These Mean Streets] was a document about a special condition, a special place, a special man. It was dense with the specificity of his world, of his head, of th...
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Down These Mean Streets, an autobiography by Piri Thomas is about his individual life from childhood to adulthood on the "mean" streets of New York's Spanish Harlem. Born Juan Pedro Thomas, he was the...
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Teaching Down These Mean Streets
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Down These Mean Streets Lesson Plans contain 110 pages of teaching material, including:
Critical Essay by Nelson Aldrich
The Psychological Development of Piri Thomas
