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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America (Reprint Edition) by Geoffrey Canada, Jamar Nicholas Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-8070-0423-5 / 0807004235 ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-0423-4 / 9780807004234 When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Weaving in and out of his stark storytelling is a coge |