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Title: Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by Lealan Jones, Lloyd Newman, David Isay, John Brooks, Cornel West ISBN: 0684870444 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62
Rating: 4
Summary: Heartwrenching look at reality
Comment: If you don't have a feel for what it must be like to hope to dig yourself and your family out of the worst of situations and build a better life, this book should help. I've driven by at a distance from such projects and have failed to really understand what bright kids like these have to deal with . . . at school, at home, in their neighborhood . . . until I read this book. And right here in "the land of the free".
LeAllan & Lloyd are living testimonials to what must be overcome each and every day when one is in such circumstances. It makes one wonder how many others are feeling so trapped and possess such strong desires to better themselves in the midst of such tragedy.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you liked the "City of Joy" you'll love this book!
Comment: LeAlan, Lloyd and John give readers a view of life in the projects that should stir all of us to action. Their simple and understandable conversations bring to life the problems and challanges faced by their families and neighbors.
Anyone interested in learning more about the plight of the inner city should read this book. Not because it proposes any grand plans for fixing the problem, but because it gives the reader a view into a world rarely, if ever, encountered by most Americans.
LeAlan, especially, has a gift for conversation that will leave readers asking "Why has this been allowed to happen?" In a country as prosperous as ours, no one should have been left to fend for themselves in this manner.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.
Comment: Though I was required to read this book for a course I took, and therefore supposed to be reading and analyzing it over a week's time, I found myself reading the entire book in one sitting. This book shows the unfamiliar reader what poverty really is, how it thinks, acts, looks like, and feels from the words and experiences of children. LeAlan and Lloyd are children growing up in a very adult world, and one is reminded just how young they actually are when you listen to the recordings of their initial broadcasts. Knowing that they and their families are real people, how can you read this book and feel nothing? The tragic part is, those who most need their eyes opened to the state of poverty and violence in our nation will most likely never read this book. For those of us who do, may your eyes be a little wider, your heart a little deeper, and your spirit be called to action.
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Title: Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse by LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newmana, David Isay ISBN: 1931173044 Publisher: Sound Portraits Productions Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz ISBN: 0385265565 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shooting for Excellence: African American and Youth Culture in New Century Schools by Jabari Mahiri ISBN: 0807737887 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060974990 Publisher: Perennial Press Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Amazing Grace : Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060976977 Publisher: Perennial Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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