|
|
Product Description
Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and—at the heart and center of the book—courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Practice of Macro Social Work
- The Color of Lies
- Ensuring High-Quality Curriculum: How to Design, Revise, or Adopt Curriculum Aligned to Student Success
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Special Programs and Services in Schools Creating Options, Meeting Needs, Revised, 2nd Edition
- Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
- Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America Plus Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (6th Edition)
- Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations
- On Playing a Poor Hand Well: Insights from the Lives of Those Who Have Overcome Childhood Risks and Adversities (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
- Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
*If this is not the "Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Apr 17, 2024 22:46 +08.
