Maria Hinojosa

A book describing Hinojosa's interviews with gang members in New York City. Kids like this often get labelled and shoved into a group, but their individual voices sing loud and clear in this book. It's hard to remember that these kids are only teenagers, because most of them have been through more than most of us will ever experience. Unfortunately it leaves them with a lot of anger, and even a sense of entitlement: I deserve to do whatever I need to do to have some money, because I've been through so much. And they couldn't see that the grief they feel about the death of one of their friends would happen to someone else if they continued their patterns of violence. On the one hand, old souls: on the other, spoiled brats.… (meer)