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A true compelling story of a boy growing up in the barrios of Watts, Compton, and Pico-Union in South Central Los Angeles amid violence, drug abuse, gangs, racism, and poverty. On the day his parents decide to get divorced his world became tortured. How can he get out of it? How can he make a career when he does not know how? The author takes you on a ride in his life!
Whispers of a future draw this young boy onto a path that is confusing, frustrating, and long. At first, he is just trying to escape his daily surroundings and he begins to write down stories as small swatches of a few words written on paper napkins, newspapers, and on scratch paper. As time passed the author wrote at his desk, on the floor, in darkened rooms, and in the end he always felt better. The stories became the Latin Boy Shuffle, which was a dance when he was a young man and later became the story of his life. The book took his issues and helped him toward resolution to find forgiveness to those who had been in his life and to rectify what happened in his youth; it is was a way to tell youth about his life and offer hope and encourage them to face their life with promise and optimism.
Dr. Albert Valencia is Professor Emeritus, in the Department of Counselor Education and Rehabilitation, at California State University, Fresno. He has served as Chairperson of the Department, Coordinator of the School Counseling Credential Program.