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	Piri Thomas
		Piri Thomas turned down an invitation to dinner at our home, but invited us, instead, to a gourmet dinner he would prepare.
		From his mother, Piri gained spiritual insight, but never could relate to spirituality in the context of priests or organized religion, unless it was in the sense of sharing and respect for human dignity.
		Piri and Betty were in Geneva at a conference on human rights and genocide, when they learned of the August 30, 1985 invasion of homes, and arrests.
	www.peacehost.net /WhiteStar/Voices/eng-piri.html (1188 words)

	Piri Thomas and Writing
		Piri Thomas has the ability to captivate people through his writing and recitation of his poetry.
		Although, Thomas had a talent for writing, it was not until he was imprisoned for seven years that he began to truly express himself through pen and paper.
		Thomas considers writing to be a way to reach those who are burdened by the struggle to survive in a place that thrives on bringing others down.
	www.angelfire.com /pa5/jessemoli/Thomas.writing.html (840 words)

	Piri Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piri Thomas (born Juan Pedro Tomas September 10, 1928 in Spanish Harlem in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-Cuban who is influential in the Nuyorican Movement as a writer and poet.
		Piri was also exposed to racial discrimination because of the color of his skin and because he was Hispanic.
		In 1967, Piri received funds from the Rabinowitz Foundation and wrote and published his best-selling autobiography "Down These Mean Streets." In his book he describes his struggle for survival as a Puerto Rican/Cuban born and raised in the barrios of New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piri_Thomas (353 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		Piri Thomas, a highly recognized Latino author and poet, addressed audiences Saturday about racism, diversity and unity among all human beings.
		Piri Thomas, a renowned author and poet, spoke Saturday in the Wedge Room of West Quad as part of Puerto Rican Week.
		Thomas began writing "Down These Mean Streets," an autobiography chronicling his life on the streets of Spanish Harlem, while in prison.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1998/nov/11-23-98/news/news11.html (613 words)

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		Piri Thomas was born in 1928 in Spanish Harlem, New York City.
		Piri came before the parole board after four years in prison and was sent back for reconsideration in two years.
		Piri became aware of a group of Muslins who met often for prayer and for a while joined them, learning their customs and prayers.
	www.geocities.com /hcswift/thomas.html (1086 words)

	Detroit Public TV \| Highlights & Specials. The Reentry Project. Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life & Work of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The book's author, Piri Thomas, the first writer of Puerto Rican ancestry to receive national recognition, is considered by many to be a cultural icon and community treasure.
		Thomas' writings, his poetry and his work as an educator have inspired and influenced generations of students, writers, artists and activists who have identified with his journey of struggle, self-discovery and transformation.
		In the film, Thomas' coming-of-age story is counter-pointed with dramatizations, spoken word poetry performance sequences and vérité scenes of his ongoing work of forty-five years as an educator and activist empowering marginalized and incarcerated youths.
	www.wtvs.org /reentry/poet.shtml (550 words)

	Piri Thomas' Biography
		Piri Thomas was born in Harlem, New York on September 30, 1928.
		Thomas grew up in Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) at a time when lynching was still very prevalent in the United States, so the threat of racism was very real for him and others like him.
		Thomas was faced with racism at school and in his own neighborhood, where he was taunted by whites and frequently called a "nigger spic".
	www.angelfire.com /pa5/jessemoli/Thomasbio.html (599 words)

	Working Paper No. 42 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Piri, however, is well aware that due to the slave trade that ran through the Caribbean basin, "virtually all Puerto Rican citizens have some African blood in their veins."36 It is only after Piri becomes painfully aware that his father favors his light-skinned siblings, that he learns of his father's internalized racism.
		Piri, in contrast, is rejected by and rejects the liminal membership his father had within an "American" national culture and looks elsewhere in his search for a stable identity, turning to the one place that is "home", the streets.
		Piri is wounded by racism and torn in his attempts to construct a stable racial/national identity; unfortunately, he uses women's bodies to unleash his hatred of whites.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /RandS/research/wps/wp42.html (4741 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
		The teenaged Piri seeks a place for himself in barrio society by becoming a gang leader, and as he grows up his life spirals into a self-destructive cycle of drug addiction and violence, the same cycle that he sees all around him and hardly knows how to break.
		Piri is also troubled by a very personal problem: much darker than his brothers and sisters, he decides that he, unlike his siblings, is fl, and that he must come to terms with life as a fl American.
		Piri Thomas gained the distance and objectivity to observe his world without prejudice or self-deception; your students should try to do the same.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679781424&view=tg (2990 words)

	IN THE NEWS
		Acclaimed poet and writer Piri Thomas, whose autobiography Down These Mean Streets,, who has become a classic of Latino literature in America delivered the keynote address.
		Thomas spoke spontaneously with a lyricism that captivated the audience.
		Thomas read some of his poetry and pieces composed by other Latino poets of his choosing.
	www.brown.edu /Students/Lambda_Upsilon_Lambda/piri5.html (628 words)

	Bi-Co News: Piri Thomas comes to Bryn Mawr
		Thomas was born and raised in Harlem, and subsequently became a member of a gang, hooked on heroin, and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for shooting a police officer during a robbery.
		Piri says that not only did he come out of prison with his memoirs, but he also attained his “GED and a doctorate in the art of living.” Upon his releasement from prison, he went back to el barrio, and began working with kids involved in gangs.
		Thomas had such a grandfatherly demeanor (at age 73), yet he was so vibrant and full of life, it was hard to see him as someone who almost took a life.
	www.biconews.com /article/view/3112 (445 words)

	Independent Lens . EVERY CHILD IS BORN A POET: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas . The Poems \| PBS
		Piri Thomas’ creative impact is not limited to the written word.
		Thomas is also well-known as one of the pioneers of spoken word poetry, a form of poetry performance that has its roots in hip hop, performance art and the Beat poetry movement.
		Piri Thomas’ message of “unity among us” reinforces tenets of peace and social justices through prose, poetry and performance.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/everychildisbornapoet/poems.html (214 words)

	L A \| P E Ñ A \| NexGeneration
		Piri Thomas is a writer, poet and author of the classic Down These Mean Streets, a memoir of his struggles growing up as a Puerto Rican and person of color in New York's Spanish Harlem.
		Piri Thomas is featured in our "NexGeneration" artist directory because he has acted as an inspiration and mentor to innumerable young poets and artists.
		Piri is the first Puerto Rican to write a book out of the Barrios about the Barrios; about being a Puerto Rican in America.
	www.lapena.org /nexgen/piri_thomas.html (369 words)

	Independent Lens . EVERY CHILD IS BORN A POET: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas . Talkback \| PBS
		Piri Thomas is one of thousands of great artists that we should be experiencing.
		Thomas ws able to create a piece that is filled with an unlifting connection to his people, and i dont mean the Puerto Rican people.
		Piri Thomas is truely an inspiration for all Latino youth.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/everychildisbornapoet/talkback.html (1778 words)

	Piri Thomas' Prose Works
		Desde su adolescencia en El Barrio hasta la cárcel de Sing Sing, Piri Tomás ofrece un recuento estremecedor que con voz profunda, muestra en cada página cómo aprende a conocerse, a aceptarse y finalmente a tener fe en sí mismo.
		Wounded and arrested while committing an armed robbery, Thomas begins his long seven years of incarceration first in the prison ward at Bellevue and then in Sing Sing and Great Meadows (Comstock).
		Thomas' great heart and tough street philosophy face off lyrically with the brutality of the guards, the sterility of steel and cement, the perversity fostered on both sides of the bars by incarceration.
	cheverote.com /prose.html (272 words)

	Piri Thomas
		Nevertheless, Thomas’ autobiography is perfect from the point of view of contrasting with Harlem Renaissance Representations of the ghetto.
		Thomas himself experienced a third kind of tension as well, and that was inside him.
		Thomas gives a description of the transformation that it undergoes, as day becomes night.
	www.eng.umu.se /city/therese/main_essay/representations/piri_thomas.htm (629 words)

	Writers' Series: Piri Thomas
		Born Juan Pedro Tomás, of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents in New York City's Spanish Harlem in 1928, Piri Thomas began his struggle for survival, identity, and recognition at an early age.
		Piri's extensive travel in Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Europe, and the United States has also been perceptively documented in free-lance articles by him.
		Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem.
	www.bcny.org /ws-2005/writers-series2006-thomas.htm (404 words)

	Every_Child_Is_Born_A_Poet
		Piri Thomas (in arms) with father, mother, and sister, 1932.
		The films' subject, poet, novelist, activist and educator Piri Thomas, is considered to be one of the preeminent figures of Nuyorican (i.e., New York Puerto Rican) literary culture.
		Today, Thomas continues an active schedule of poetry readings and workshops in schools, universities, prisons, nightclubs and festivals throughout the country and internationally.
	www.everychildisbornapoet.com /aboutpiri.htm (267 words)

	MOSAEC Books-Down These Means Streets, Piri Thomas
		Thomas wrestles with issues of drugs, race and his place in society.
		Like Thomas, I began questioning myself to make sense of who I was in an environment that was very different from my own.
		Thomas explains to his brother and family he was “going down south” to find himself because he felt displaced in his own family.
	www.mosaec.com /mosaec/books/books_thomas.htm (456 words)

	Mean Streets Author Launches Latino Month - April 7, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One day Piri Thomas put a big notebook on the table in his prison cell and said to the book, "I want to tell you a story." He began writing.
		Piri Thomas, right, author of Down These Mean Streets, meets with Cindy Schaefer, an administrative assistant, before speaking at the opening ceremony for Latino Awareness Month April 1 at the Rome Commons Ballroom.
		Thomas, author of the autobiographical classic Down These Mean Streets, was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of Latino Awareness Month.
	www.advance.uconn.edu /2003/030407/03040705.htm (460 words)

	Amazon.ca: Down These Mean Streets: Books: Piri Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a dark-skinned Puerto Rican, born in 1928, Piri Thomas faced with painful immediacy the absurd contradictions of America's racial attitudes (among people of all colors) in a time of wrenching social change.
		Also it talks about what Piri Thomas does and what kind of problems he is involved with, like drugs, in gangs, and that's very similar of what is going on now.
		I enjoyed the when Piri Thomas was sleeping out of his house because I imaging what can happen to me if I do the same things.
	www.amazon.ca /These-Mean-Streets-Piri-Thomas/dp/0679781420 (930 words)

	"Bringing It Back to the Mecca"
		The purpose of the banquet is to serve as a vehicle to showcase the hidden talents of Latinos within our community, educate the public about the Latino culture and dissipate the stereotypes created by society while encompassing the sorority's national philanthropy of literacy.
		Piri Thomas was born Juan Pedro Tomás, of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents in New York City's Spanish Harlem in 1928.
		Thomas includes Savior, Savior Hold My Hand, Seven Long Times, a chronicle of one man's experience in New York's dehumanizing penal system, and Stories from El Barrio, a collection of short stories.
	www.sigmalambdaupsilon.org /pralphabanquet.htm (510 words)

	Hanging on a ghetto cross: Piri Thomas and Latino Protestant popular religion Currents in Theology and Mission - Find ...
		Thomas is also one of the few Latino authors who have written about personal experience and convictions with the intention to stimulate a critical examination of the religious and spiritual expression of traditionally under-represented constituencies in North American society.
		My choice of the literary work of Piri Thomas aims at enriching these efforts, not just by selecting a Latino author for whom literature becomes a preferential vehicle of expression, but because his particular contributions challenge not only a dominant literary genre in Latino literature but other theological efforts at this task.
		Born of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents in New York City's Spanish Harlem in 1928, Piri Thomas's struggle for survival, identity, and recognition began at a very early age.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MDO/is_4_31/ai_n6150722 (895 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Sánchez, "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender
		Outside his home "turf" of East Harlem, the autobiographical and fictional character, also named Piri, was called every name in the racist lexicon for fl people because he was dark-skinned, had nappy hair and an Anglo-sounding surname, and knew and liked the walk and talk of fl men in Harlem.
		Thomas defamiliarizes Texas as a geopolitical space made up of a Mexican American and African American minority population.
		Hughes and Thomas not only expand the range of our imaginings of Texas; they also help to connect the dots between two of the peoples whose histories are intricately tied to this geographic space.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsansha.html (1251 words)

	Independent Lens . EVERY CHILD IS BORN A POET: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas . The Poet \| PBS
		Piri Thomas was born in Harlem Hospital in 1928 and raised in New York City’s East Harlem.
		Thomas’ poetry, prose and performance style have influenced generations of writers and spoken word artists.
		Thomas currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area and continues to travel across the United States, presenting dramatic readings and creative writing workshops in schools, universities, prisons and other institutions.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/everychildisbornapoet/poet.html (282 words)

	Piri Thomas reads 'For Vieques' - poem by Marilyn Buck
		Born Juan Pedro Tomas, of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents in New York City's Spanish Harlem in 1928, Piri Thomas began his struggle for survival, identity, and recognition at an early age.
		Piri is also the author of Savior, Savior Hold My Hand, Seven Long Times and Stories from El Barrio.
		In addition, Piri Thomas is a poet whose work is available on CD: www.cheverote.com/cds.html.
	www.freedomarchives.org /wildpoppies/Piri_Thomas.html (459 words)

	Artwork: Soul Rebel: Piri Thomas
		Piri Thomas was born in El Barrio/ East Harlem in 1928 to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother.
		When it came time to paint Piri Thomas, there was no doubt in my mind about what the color scheme would be (bright Puerto Rican red) or which of his words would appear alongside his image.
		As a Soul Rebel Piri used his own experience with the rough life of the streets, incareration, addiction to relate to youth and others going through the same struggle.
	www.yasminhernandez.com /piri.htm (561 words)

	90.05.03: The Family as Seen Through Interpretive Dance
		It is an autobiographical account of Piri Thomas’ formative years as he grew up in Spanish Harlem between the 1950’s and 1960’s.
		Piri Thomas writes very descriptive accounts of el barrio and also gives a detailed account of the prejudice and confusion he experienced because he was darker than the other members of his family and often identified by others as an African American.
		Thomas writes about what he found when he returned from a seven year prison term.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/5/90.05.03.x.html (1860 words)

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