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Rodriguez Luis J:     more books (93)

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez, 2005-09-06 My Nature is Hunger: New and Selected Poems, 1989 – 2004 by Luis J. Rodríguez, 2005-09-01 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way/No tiene que ser asi: A Barrio Story/Una historia del barrio by Luis J. Rodriguez, 2004-06-25 La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de un Pandillero en Los Angeles (Spanish Edition) by Luis J. Rodriguez, 2005-09-06 Poems across the Pavement by Luis J. Rodriguez, 1989-01-01 The History of Barrios Unidos: Healing Community Violence (Hispanic Civil Rights) by Frank De Jesus Acosta, 2007-05-31 Republica de East LA, La: Cuentos (Spanish Edition) by Luis J. Rodriguez, 2003-03-01 América is her name; illustrations by Carlos Vázquez. by Luis J Rodríguez, 1997 Hearts and hands; creating community in violent times. by Luis J Rodríguez, 2001 Musica de la Aceria: Una Novela by Luis J. Rodriguez, 2007-03-01 God bless the devil;: The key to liberation of psychiatry by Luis J Rodriguez, 1961 The Concrete River by Luis J. Rodriguez, 1995-07-01 East Side Stories: Gang Life in East LA by Joseph Rodriguez, Ruben Martinez, et all 1998-03 Biography - Rodriguez, Luis J. (1954-): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, 2003-01-01

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1. Luis J. Rodriguez - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Luis J. Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Luis J. Rodriguez (born ) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature . His best-known work, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. , is the recipient of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, among others, and has been the subject of controversy when included on reading lists in California, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas schools due to its frank depictions of gang life. Rodriguez has also founded or co-founded numerous organizations, including the T­a Chucha Press, which publishes the work of unknown writers, , a San Fernando Valley cultural center , and the Chicago -based Youth Struggling for Survival, an organization for at-risk youth. Rodriguez was born in the United States-Mexico border city El Paso, Texas . His parents, natives of Ciudad Ju¡rez Chihuahua , had their children on the U.S. side of the border to ease the transition into the United States, where they had intentions of relocating. His father was a high school principal and his mother, who is descended from the

2. E-poets: Luis Rodriguez
   Luis J. Rodriguez Luis Rodriguez is a poet, journalist, social activist, and publisher whose history spans America from Mexico s Copper Canyon to East Los  
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   Extractions: features: Book of Voices home special chapters artists catalog catalogs by culture ... about the Book of Voices related websites: e-poets.net home e-poets.net Videotheque Luis Rodriguez is a poet, journalist, social activist, and publisher whose history spans America from Mexico's Copper Canyon to East Los Angeles to Chicago. He is a survivor of much gang violence in his youth. In 1993, he published "Always Running - La Vida Loca : Gang Days in L.A." (Curbstone Press), a journal of his gang life experiences from the 1960s and '70s. Poetry titles of his by Curbstone Press include and " Trochemoche (Helter Skelter)" (1998), and "The Concrete River" (1991). His first poetry volume, "Poems Across the Pavement" (Tia Chucha Press, 1989), won the 1989 Poetry Center National Book Award from San Francisco State University. Rodriguez founded Tia Chucha Press, which remains one of Chicago's most noteworthy hometown literary presses. Rodriguez' work speaks of Latinos' disenfranchisement and pursuit of empowerment in the United States in a voice that is faithful to its culture, unapologetic, and proud. His writing remains accessible to the broader Anglo society in which it lives. In 2000, Rodriguez moved his immediate family from Chicago back to Los Angeles to be closer to relatives, and to continue his writing energized by his experiences decades before. His mission through Tia Chucha then evolved into . Further information on Rodriguez can be found at the author's own website Audition these poems by clicking on the titles:

3. Luis J Rodriguez
   Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with eight nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction,  
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   Extractions: Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with eight nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, and poetry. Luis' poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and "Foreword" magazine's Silver Book Award, among others. His two children's books have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two "Skipping Stones" Honor Award, and a Parent's Choice Book Award, among others. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for Luis' then 15-year-old son Ramiro, who had joined a Chicago gang, the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called "Always Running" one of the ten most censored books in the United States. Efforts to remove his books from public school libraries and reading lists have occurred in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and more recently in California, where the battles were quite heated. Yet for all the controversy, Luis has gained the respect of the literary community. In addition to the above honors, he has received a Sundance Institute Art Writers Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, an Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a National Association for Poetry Therapy Public Service Award, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an Illinois Author of the Year Award, several Illinois Arts Council fellowships, the 2001Premio Fronterizo, and "Unsung Heroes of Compassion" Award, presented by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

4. Always Running La Vida Loca, Gang Days In L.A By Luis J
   books on (rodriguez luis j 1954 ) OR (Gangs California Los Angeles Biography) OR (Mexican American Youth California Los Angeles Biography) 7350 results  
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5. AmoXcalli: Music Of The Mill By Luis J. Rodriguez
   Luis J. Rodriguez has now done so. In Music of the Mill, Luis Rodriguez writes about the Salcido family and their 60year relationship to the mill called  
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   Extractions: Library in Nahuatl, the language of my ancestors. "I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books." Borges Pulitzer prize winning John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath Music of the Mill is as well. Everyone knows about the Great Depression but how many people outside of the little South L.A. towns where the steel mill ruled for so many years and about the economical and social decline the closing of those mills caused? Billy Joel sang about Allentown and the whole nation was made aware of the loss of mills in Pennsylvania. Who sang for Huntington Park, Maywood, and South Gate, those little sad towns in Los Angeles? Luis J. Rodriguez has now done so. The mill itself is portrayed as dangerous, toxic yet seductive monster. Mr. Rodriguez brings the reader into the mill; you feel its heat, its intensity, its ugliness and its beauty. From workers grilling their carne asada on an ingot to the racial tensions and divisions, you are in that mill. You can feel the tension, smell the carne. People die in the mill, lose limbs, breath in bad fumes. Workers turn to alcohol, drugs to stay awake in order to work more shifts. It is all too real. I grew up a Xicana in the shadow of Bethlehem Steel in the 1970s. I remember the men that would come home dirty, black from the fire of the mill and tired. I remember when the mill closed and the rise in drug use; sales of such and violence began to escalate in the barrios where I was now raising my children. I never really tied the two instances together until I read this most remarkable novel.

6. Texas Institute For Reproductive Medicine & Endocrinology (TIRME)
   Luis J. Rodriguez, Treasurer of TIRME. Dr. rodriguez luis j. RodriguezRigau, M.D., F.A.C.E.. Vice-President and Treasurer of TIRME and Clinical  
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7. Rodriguez Luis J It Doesn T Have To Be This Way No Tiene Que Ser
   rodriguez luis j It Doesn t Have To Be This Way No Tiene Que Ser Asi A Barrio Story at rediff books.  
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8. Rodriguez Luis J The Concrete River Gifts In India At Rediff Books
   rodriguez luis j The Concrete River at rediff books.  
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9. The Website Of Bestselling Author, Luis J. Rodriguez
   The official source for information about the Chicano writer.  
   http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/

10. LuisRodriguez_interview
    My name luis J. rodriguez - is as much a part of American history and mystery as anyone else. Which book did you first have published, and what was your  
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    Extractions: www.luisjrodriguez.com You have been writing for many years. In my opinion, your writing has not only given you the opportunity to broadcast your voice in the world of literature, it has also resurrected many other lives and voices that otherwise would have gone unheard. For the readers that are not familiar, who is Luis Rodriguez? Luis Rodriguez: I am a voice in the dark, that dark place in America that we'd rather not acknowledge or understand. The barrio dark. The border dark. The criminal and drug-use dark. The peripheral dark of "minority" politics and working class dark. As writer - poetry, fiction, children's books, essay, memoir, journalism, screenplay - I have many genres from which to draw out the stories, the images, the meanings from this dark. America is too often idealized, whitewashed, scrubbed clean with lies. America has some great values, great ideals, but it's been built on some dark, painful, murderous history. I have to speak from that history. Not to destroy, not to dismiss, not to decry - but to dance. My name - Luis J. Rodriguez - is as much a part of American history and mystery as anyone else.

11. P.O.V. - Borders . Border Talk. Luis J. Rodriguez | PBS
    luis J. rodriguez is an awardwinning writer with eight books published in poetry, children s literature, memoir, fiction, and nonfiction.  
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    Extractions: Has human civilization ever been good at sharing? Always. We did it with far lesser resources or technological tools. We do so today. There are built-in social compacts that keep us from truly losing it even as many of our leaders, the truly powerful and greedy, run roughshod through the economic, political, social, and moral constraints binding on the rest of us. We still have strong impulses to something ancestral and primordial, collective and even genetic, to put others before ourselves, to — as Jesus and most great thinkers and prophets have emphasized over the ages — "treat others as you would like to be treated."

12. Luis Rodriguez
    The luis rodriguez page has moved. to www.luisjrodriguez.com. Check it out! Recommended by luis. Sing Soft, Sing Loud  
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13. Luis J Rodriguez Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
    Alibris has new used books by luis J rodriguez, including hardcovers, softcovers, rare, outof-print first editions, signed copies, and more.  
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14. Hearts And Hands: An Interview With Luis Rodriguez
    Let s call him hero, and be done with it he s devoted his life to blasting holes in the prison walls, allowing the poem to pass through.  
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    Extractions: zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Poetry Poetry History/Poets by Era ... Contemporary Poets Hearts and Hands: An Interview with Luis Rodriguez Poetry Education Poetry Essentials ... Help click for more images Tia Chucha Press (Northwestern University) Email to a friend Print this Page Submit to Digg Elsewhere on the Web LuisJRodriguez.com Suggested Reading Nothing to Lose but the Chains: Poetry in the Neighborhood, Arts in the Economy Poetry you can actually read: An interview with Bruce Isaacson of Zeitgeist Pres Reading List in a Weekend: From the Bowery Poetry Club Recent Discussions Halo 3 (Runatyr) Fragile Subway Preacher (guyblakekett) Most Popular Winter Poems Poems of War Poems for Peace Locate the text of a poem ... Love Poems From FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times Seven Stories Press ), is an inspiring vision of turning gang violence into creative energy. With co-publisher Michael Warr Tia Chucha Press is exemplary in staking out a poetics that shows the evolution of writing from high school body punches to old school wisdom trill. In 2001 he opened, with wife Trini and family

15. CD Baby: LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ: My Name's Not Rodriguez
    Dos Manos Records is proud to present luis J. Rodriguezone of the country s leading Chicano poetsin his first CD of poems and music.  
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    Extractions: © 2003 Luis J. Rodriguez (724101824128) CD IN STOCK. ORDER NOW. Will ship immediately. SPECIAL: 10% discount if you buy more than one copy of it today! [MP3 downloads temporarily disabled] About MP3 downloads at CD Baby Spoken Word/Poetry by Luis J. Rodriguez; Music Composed and Produced by Ernie Perez; music performed by Seven Rabbit. Dos Manos Records is proud to present Luis J. Rodriguezone of the country's leading Chicano poetsin his first CD of poems and music. In collaboration with Cha Cha Rose/Rock A Mole Music producer Ernie Perez, "My Name's Not Rodriguez" is a synthesis of 1970s Urban Funk/Chicano rock-like beats in the spirit of today's performance poetry movement.

16. Luis J Rodriguez My Name S Not Rodriguez
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17. Subalternity And Luis J. Rodriguez’s “My Ride, My Revolution”
    Admittedly but a single work, The Republic of East L.A. by luis J. rodriguez can elicit profound implications for the study of the Chicano subaltern subject  
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    Extractions: Admittedly but a single work, The Republic of East L.A. particularity The Republic of East L.A. The Republic of East L.A. reason reasonable and fitting representation of Chicano subalternity? At first, however, the novel seems to exhibit all the necessary qualifications to overturn The Republic of East L.A. But The Republic of East L.A. The Republic of East L.A. to put words together about this wonder on the roadway, to excavate a new vocabulary lack Later in this first story, while Cruz is meditating on the meaning of his rock band, a certain relation is insinuated between voice and intelligibility. Here, Cruz draws a distinction between his work as a limousine driver, as a social subject participating in hegemonic modes of production, and his leisurely pursuits as a member of a rock band named La Cruz Negra. The band is his escape from the formality and order demanded by his job. For Cruz, as well as for the other members, the band serves a therapeutic purpose. Through their collective music the members of La Cruz Negra supply themselves with a medium through which to cathect their pent-up frustration with society. The band fulfills their collective need to critique a society that, as the following lyrics suggest, proves unfavorable for Chicanos.

18. Always Running; Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.; Hardback; Book
    Always Running Author rodriguez, luis J. Author rodriguez, luis J. Hardback; Book 260 pages Published May 1995 Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd  
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19. Luis J. Rodriguez: Chicanos, Mayans And Mel Gibson
    By luis J. rodriguez. Once in 2001 while on a twoweek speaking tour of schools, Boys Girls clubs, colleges, and other venues in the state of Delaware,  
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    Extractions: On Affirmative Action and Mexican Migrants What's Robert Gates's not-so-distant dirty past? Greg Moses turns over the dirt in College Station, how Gates fought affirmative action there and how Reagan and Bush's's slippery spook will run the new Border War. , turncoat tool of neoliberalism.Pierre Rimbert traces the decline and fall of one of radical journalism's great hopes the paper founded by Jean-Paul Sartre. Daniel Wolff describes how Bob Dylan plays the music of the Apocalypse. Remember, we are funded solely by the subscribers to the print edition of CounterPunch. Please support this website by buying a subscription to our newsletter , which contains fresh material you won't find anywhere else, or by making a donation towards the cost of this online edition. Remember contributions are tax-deductible.

20. Luis J. Rodriguez From HarperCollins Publishers
    luis J. rodriguez is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Always Running, The Republic of East L.A., and Hearts and Hands,  
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