On The Corner
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A Place On The Corner Second Edition
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Author : Elijah Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-10-16
A Place On The Corner Second Edition written by Elijah Anderson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-16 with Family & Relationships categories.
This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Elijah Anderson's classic study of street life among a gang of people congregating around a bar called 'Jelly's' on Chicago's South Side.
The Corner
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Author : David Simon
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2013-03-13
The Corner written by David Simon and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-13 with Social Science categories.
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.
The Corner Of The Living
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Author : Miguel La Serna
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-03-12
The Corner Of The Living written by Miguel La Serna and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with History categories.
Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasizing the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, Miguel La Serna asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic field work, La Serna argues that historically rooted and locally specific power relations, social conflicts, and cultural understandings shaped the responses of indigenous peasants to the insurgency. In Chuschi, the guerrillas found indigenous support for the movement and dreamed of sparking a worldwide Maoist revolution. In Huaychao, by contrast, villagers rose up against Shining Path forces, precipitating more violence and feeding an international uproar that took on political significance for Peru during the Cold War. The Corner of the Living illuminates both the stark realities of life for the rural poor everywhere and why they may or may not choose to mobilize around a revolutionary cause.
The Corner That Held Them
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Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-01-28
The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with Fiction categories.
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
Voices On The Corner
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Author : Harold J. Recinos
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Voices On The Corner written by Harold J. Recinos and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with Social Science categories.
Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in civil rights marches in the 60s. The minister took Recinos into his family, helped him kick a heroin habit, and enrolled him in school. Voices on the Corner documents life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in the human experience. The poems provide a fresh insight into the existential experiences of people excluded from mainstream society. In a celebration of dazzling texture, poems here address issues of police brutality, gun violence, immigrants' rights, the blighted urban landscape, death, hunger, religious violence, drug addiction, pluralism, spirituality, family life, hope, and the pulse of everyday life in overlooked places.
No Place On The Corner
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Author : Jan Haldipur
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-11-27
No Place On The Corner written by Jan Haldipur and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Social Science categories.
Winner, 2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, given by the Goddard Riverside Community Center The impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community What’s it like to be stopped and frisked by the police while walking home from the supermarket with your young children? How does it feel to receive a phone call from your fourteen-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” policing methods were a violation of rights. Through riveting interviews and with a humane eye, Jan Haldipur shows how a community endured this aggressive policing regime. Though the police mostly targeted younger men of color, Haldipur focuses on how everyone in the neighborhood—mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, even the district attorney’s office—was affected by this intense policing regime and thus shows how this South Bronx community as a whole experienced this collective form of punishment. One of Haldipur’s key insights is to demonstrate how police patrols effectively cleared the streets of residents and made public spaces feel off-limits or inaccessible to the people who lived there. In this way community members lost the very ‘street corner’ culture that has been a hallmark of urban spaces. This profound social consequence of aggressive policing effectively keeps neighbors out of one another’s lives and deeply hurts a community’s sense of cohesion. No Place on the Corner makes it hard to ignore the widespread consequences of aggressive policing tactics in major cities across the United States.
The Corner
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Author : David Simon
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-04-02
The Corner written by David Simon and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with True Crime categories.
The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family – two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable fifteen-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough – Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the USA and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades and the welfare system have accomplished so little.
Man In The Corner
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Author : Nathan Besser
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2017-08-14
Man In The Corner written by Nathan Besser and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-14 with Fiction categories.
It was a perfectly acceptable life -- successful business, happy marriage, two children. Why then has David involved himself in an identity-theft crime worth millions of dollars?
The Woman In The Corner
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Author : Nancy Krygowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2020-02-25
The Woman In The Corner written by Nancy Krygowski and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Poetry categories.
The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from—in human relationships and in our own unruly hearts. In poems that speak fearlessly about sex and grief, mothers and daughters, and friendships and marriage, Krygowski examines the beauty and danger of inhabiting a woman’s body in the twenty-first century while negotiating how our pasts infiltrate, for better or worse, the here and now. This intimate collection delivers hard won loves and insights, surprising humor, and daring imagination. Krygowski celebrates our joys, gives witness to our pain, and never, never compromises. Excerpt from “The Woman in the Corner” I cut a leaf from my mother’s blooming violet, long alive past her death, to start a plant for my daughter who I never knew as a baby— born to a different woman— but for whom I explained birth control, blood, how to relax, push in a tampon, what my mother never touched, her body a child-making mystery that pushed me into mystery. What is a woman who doesn’t long for kids?
Somewhere Around The Corner
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Author : Jackie French
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 1994
Somewhere Around The Corner written by Jackie French and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Historical fiction for young readers. Barbara meets an old man at a wild demonstration who tells her to walk around the corner and arrive at a better place. The place is 1934, the height of Depression in Australia. Young Jim takes Barbara home to meet his family, where Barbara finds the love, security and peace missing from her life. But will she be forced to return to her own time? Author is winner of the 2000 Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Younger Readers. Her other titles include 'The Soldier on the Hill' and 'Hitler's Daughter'.