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Rosa Lee : A Mother and Her Family in Urban America by Leon Dash (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-100465070922
ISBN-139780465070923
eBay Product ID (ePID)1075144
Product Key Features
Book TitleRosa Lee : a Mother and Her Family in Urban America
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoverty & Homelessness, Psychopathology / Addiction, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Psychology
AuthorLeon Dash
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-019403
Dewey Edition21
Photographed byPerkins, Lucian
Dewey Decimal305.5/69/0973
SynopsisBased on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award., Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America's black underclass. Rosa Lee's life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing projects of Southeast Washington, a stone's throw from the marble halls and civic monuments of the world's most prosperous nation. Yet for all of America's efforts, Rosa Lee and millions like her remain trapped in a cycle of poverty characterized by illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, drugs, and violent crime.Dash brings us into her life and the lives of her family members offering a human drama that statistics can only refer to. He also shows how some people--including two of Rosa Lee's children--have made it out of the ghetto, breaking the cycle to lead stable middle-class lives in the mainstream of American society.
LC Classification NumberE185.86.D37 1996
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