It Calls You Back: One Man’s Break with Gang Life
November 10, 2011 Thursday AT 3PM CT

 
 

Luis Rodriguez chronicled his early life in L.A. as a young Chicano gang member in Always Running, a book that became a classic. Now, in his second memoir, he shows just how difficult it can be to break with the past even as an activist and one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.



Guest
  • Luis J. Rodriguez, , the son of Mexican immigrants, poet, journalist, fiction-writer, children’s book writer, and critic, author of the memoirs Always Running, and It Calls You Back; an internationally respected gang interventionist.
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