Amazing grace, the lives of children and the conscience of a nation, Jonathan Kozol
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Label
Amazing grace, the lives of children and the conscience of a nation, Jonathan Kozol
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Amazing grace
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
32702668
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Kozol
Sub title
the lives of children and the conscience of a nation
Summary
Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation. Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires, and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place. Although it is a gently written work, Amazing Grace makes clear that the postmodern ghetto of America is not a social accident but is created and sustained by greed, neglect, racism, and expedience. It asks us questions that are, at once, political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How tough do we dare to be?
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Subject
- Children of minorities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Kind
- Inner cities
- Poor children -- New York (State) -- New York
- Inner cities -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York
- New York (State) + New York
- Children with social disabilities
- Minorities
- Children of minorities
- Erlebnisbericht
- Social conditions
- Children with social disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York- Bronx
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Sick children -- New York (State) -- New York
- Poor -- New York (N.Y.)
- Socially handicapped children
- Children -- South Bronx, New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Children -- New York (N.Y.)
- Disabled Persons
- Unterprivilegierung
- New York (State) + New York + Mott Haven
- Poor children
- Sick children
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject25
- Children of minorities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Kind
- Inner cities
- Poor children -- New York (State) -- New York
- Inner cities -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York
- New York (State) + New York
- Children with social disabilities
- Minorities
- Children of minorities
- Erlebnisbericht
- Social conditions
- Children with social disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York- Bronx
- Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Sick children -- New York (State) -- New York
- Poor -- New York (N.Y.)
- Socially handicapped children
- Children -- South Bronx, New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- Children -- New York (N.Y.)
- Disabled Persons
- Unterprivilegierung
- New York (State) + New York + Mott Haven
- Poor children
- Sick children
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1