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Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in Spanish Harlem, a section of Harlem with a large Puerto Rican population. The book follows Piri through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York City and elsewhere), travels, succumbs to heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, is imprisoned, and is finally released.

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rdfs:label	Down These Mean Streets (en) Por estas calles bravas (es)
rdfs:comment	Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in Spanish Harlem, a section of Harlem with a large Puerto Rican population. The book follows Piri through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York City and elsewhere), travels, succumbs to heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, is imprisoned, and is finally released. (en) Por estas calles bravas (inglés: Down These Mean Streets) es la autobiografía de , un puertorriqueño que creció en El Barrio, alias Harlem Hispano, una zona de Harlem en donde vive una comunidad de puertorriqueños grande. En el libro, observamos a Piri atravesar las primeras décadas de su vida, vive en la pobreza, se une a pandillas, encara el racismo (tanto en Nueva York como en el sur de Estados Unidos), sufre una adicción a la heroína, se mete en el crimen, y acaba en la cárcel. Las siguientes áreas han restringido o amenazado con restringir la venta de Por estas calles bravas: (es)
foaf:name	Down These Mean Streets (en)
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dc:publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
dcterms:subject	American autobiographies Puerto Rican literature American memoirs English-language books Cuban-American culture in New York (state) African-American history in New York City 1967 non-fiction books Puerto Rican culture in New York City African-American autobiographies Censored books Afro-Latino culture in the United States Afro-Caribbean culture in the United States
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