Samuel Diaz: 3 books
Our Nuyorican Thing
The Birth of a Self-Made Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What is a “Nuyorican”? And what does it mean? Poet, writer and activist Samuel Diaz Carrion explores this question and more in OUR NUYORICAN THING, THE BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY. What started out as blog correspondence for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s website (2001-2004), quickly turned into...
by Samuel Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
For generations the psyche of many Americans has been absorbing the drug propaganda and its economic rewards. It is so deeply embedded that for many it is difficult to imagine a world without drugs. This book will try to examine the social forces that are influencing the use of drugs and medical consequences....
Hope Runs
An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Sammy Ikua Gachagua had lost his father to illness, his mother to abandonment, and his home to poverty. By age ten, he was living in a shack with seven other children and very little food. He entered an orphanage seeing it as a miracle with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in, and clothes on his...