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Author Ralph, Laurence, author.

Title Sito : an American teenager and the city that failed him / Laurence Ralph.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2024.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  364.152 RALPH    DUE 04-29-24
 Mansfield, Main Library - Acquisitions    On Order
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  364.1523 RALPH    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  364.1523 RALPH    DUE 04-23-24
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "In September of 2019, Luis Alberto QuiƱonez--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 a message about the lived experience of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately grace"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Sito, 1999 or 2000-2019.
Juvenile homicide -- California -- San Francisco.
Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
Racism in criminal justice administration -- California -- San Francisco.
Racism in law enforcement -- California -- San Francisco.
Ethnic relations (OCoLC)fst00916005
Ethnic relations -- Political aspects (OCoLC)fst00916013
Juvenile homicide (OCoLC)fst00985468
Racism in law enforcement (OCoLC)fst02031398
California -- San Francisco (OCoLC)fst01204481
California -- San Francisco -- Mission District (OCoLC)fst01323368
Added Title American teenager and the city that failed him
ISBN 9781538740323 (hardcover)
153874032X (hardcover)
9781538740347 (ebook)
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