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Sito : An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him by Laurence Ralph (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-10153874032X
ISBN-139781538740323
eBay Product ID (ePID)8061245529
Product Key Features
Book TitleSito : an American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEthnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorLaurence Ralph
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-036571
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, "Ralph draws on family experiences and his research into justice-impacted youth to paint an honest, heartbreaking, and enraging picture of his 19-year-old family member Sito's life and death." -- Booklist, " 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, "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, "[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, "Through Sito's story, we begin to understand the structural inequities and generational traumas that form the backdrop to so many young lives." -- Booklist
SynopsisAN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLE A "profound", heart-wrenching story of violence, grief, and the American justice system, explored through the story of one teenager (Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted ). 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 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 the subject in a profoundly different way. Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family and 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 ultimately, grace.
LC Classification NumberHV9067.H6R35 2024
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