There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz ~ There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to... Read more | | 9-11 by Noam Chomsky | | A Sound Portraits Sampler by David Isay | | Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol, James Wade (Editor) (Hardcover) | | American Project by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh | | Cool Salsa by Lori Carlson (Editor) | | Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol | | Essentials of Sociology by James M. Henslin | | Ghetto Life 101 and Remorseby LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newmana, David Isay (Contributor) Audio CD ~In 1993 producer David Isay put a tape machine into the hands of a pair of 13-year-old boys living in the "projects" in Chicago's rough South Side. The result was a spontaneous, honest, and surprisingly profound half-hour diary of life in the ghetto. Two years later, after a five-year-old boy, Eric Morse, was killed-- dropped from a fourteen-story window--by two neighbor boys, Jones and Newman were again asked to take up the microphones as investigative reporters to try to find meaning in the tragedy. | | Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol, Jonathan Kozel | | Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (Author) | Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones, et al (Hardcover) | | OUR AMERICA by LeAlan Jones (Author) |
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