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Books : Our America: Life And Death On The South Side Of Chicago |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0977311
EAN: 9780684870441
ISBN: 0684870444
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: April 01, 1999
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
Sales Rank: 34044
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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now thispowerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other little boys.
Sometimes funny, often painful, but always charged with their dream of Our America, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman reach out to grab your attention and break your heart.
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This heartbreaking and inspiring book goes a long way toward fulfilling the wish one of its authors, LeAlan Jones, makes in his epigraph: "You must learn our America as we must learn your America, so that, maybe, someday, we can become one." Based on hours and hours of taped interviews that Jones and Lloyd Newman, two high school students, conducted for two National Public Radio documentaries they prepared in 1993 and 1995, Our America is a no-holds-barred look at the devastatingly poor Chicago neighborhood in which they live. It's a world where elementary school students learn about sex and drugs before they learn how to read, and where many boys do not expect to live to be 20. You finish the book marveling not that so many of those who people it are trapped, but wondering that anyone survives at all.
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Our America is a book begging to be shared. It is not a quiet or introspective read. It is an in-your-face, honest tale in the voice of two young teens who are wise beyond their years. Without question, it is the best book that I teach to my freshman level English class in terms of student engagement. It challenges prior knowledge, stereotypes, and opinions and broadens a student's sense of self and the world around him. Compiled from hundreds of hours of audio footage, the book captures two ... Read More
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...for use in the classroom on diversity, cultural difference, and endurance over challenges in a person's environment.
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Our America, a book by two young boys from a housing project on the South Side of Chicago, is raw and beautiful all at once. It tells the story of the authors, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, as they make their way in the Ida B. Well's housing project and tell the story of a five year-old's death from one of the buildings. The book, which was written by the boys in collaboration with author David Isay, is part journalism, part activism and part reflection. It takes a very factual look at the events ... Read More
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We read this book in school and I felt really bad for the kids. I don't know what I would have done if something like that happened to someone I know.
I related to this book because I live close to this neighborhood, but I feel lucky that my life is so much better.
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This telling account of life on the south side of Chicago is worth reading to catch a glimpse of the struggles and hardships that marginalize this south side community. The narrative and accounts of life in Chicago's public housing complexes unveil the social conflict that is tucked away from viewing and ignored by outsiders.
To shed light on the situation, two teenagers, assigned by the National Public Radio, conduct interviews with family members, neighbors, and friends throughout the ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0977311
EAN: 9780684870441
ISBN: 0684870444
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: April 01, 1999
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
Sales Rank: 34044
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