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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...
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9-11 by
Noam Chomsky |
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A Sound Portraits Sampler by
David Isay |
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Amazing
Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by
Jonathan Kozol, James Wade (Editor) (Hardcover) |
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American Project by
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh |
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Cool Salsa by
Lori Carlson
(Editor) |
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Death at an Early Age by
Jonathan Kozol |
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Essentials of Sociology by
James M. Henslin |
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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. |
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Rachel and Her Children by
Jonathan Kozol,
Jonathan Kozel |
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Savage Inequalities by
Jonathan Kozol
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Our
America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones, et al (Hardcover) |
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OUR AMERICA by
LeAlan Jones
(Author) |
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The
Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback -
Jan. 29, 2010)
Have
You Heard of Purple Pastures
The Other Side of the River
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in
the Other America