Always Running Luis Rodriguez Summary

American Dream: The Solution In the book Always Running: La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez. The author explains the american dream that’s in Crisis by explaining from his personal experience. Rodriguez starts his story from when he was came into LA as an immigrant along with his family. While him and his family stayed in LA that was infested with with gangs in the 50-60’s. Rodriguez started getting involved with gangs at a young age so he can be protected and to belong somewhere that would accept him. After years of being in a gang, in his teen years Rodriguez met Chente a man who gave Rodriguez a positive impact in his life and changed Rodriguez life for the good. The author addresses the problem of how discrimination and the inequality in the educational system and claim that proper care such as “Life-giving resources, life affirming …show more content…
The article by Linda Darling-Hammond, “Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education” where the argument is based on the poor teachers and inequality that school have. She introduces the color line that separates the students, in Rodriguez case that line separated him and his people because of his race. It also argues that teachers are a big showcase of why the education is unequal by stating that only higher class students gets better teachers. Meanwhile, the low class students only get low quality teacher who can barely teacher or don’t care about the student at all. This can cause by low funded schools, where majority of the school population are mixed race. Given small resources and little classrooms, the students were set to fail when they step foot into those kind of school. The teachers have an important role in students life and if they can’t give the students all their attention and hard work then that student will have a small chance of achieving their American Dream because of the mindset that they are given to them by the