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Title: Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol, Jonathan Kozel ISBN: 0-449-90339-7 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: January, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kozol Misunderstood
Comment: I have been reading several reviews of books by Jonathan Kozol and I am disappointed. For starters, everyone seems to be blaming minority mothers for their "out of control baby making." I think the point of his books have been missed. Kozol is always looking at how societal ills effect children. He is not apologizing for families that are larger than can be afforded - he is sympathizing with the children that are born to them. He is sympathizing (better word empathizing) with the children who attend horrible run down schools and like in welfare hotels. As a public school teacher in Chicago, his revelations are very real. We do teach in terrible buildings. We do have homeless children. Would I ever think to point the blame at them? Am I pleased with the choices their parents have made? Not always, but I am also not the one to judge -- I am there to teach their children.
As for all of the people who suggest all "these people" need to do is get up off their couches and get a job: I would like to know if you would be willing to hire these people with substandard educations and possibly no permanent residence. Middle and upper class America is quick to condem those without work, but also the last group of people to provide employment to those in most need. Before condeming the people in these situations, I firmly believe we all need to take a hard look at ourselves.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great perspective
Comment: Reading through the book Rachael And Her Children you are brought into a entirely new world. A world where the homeless are not just figures with hands held out asking for spare change. Kozol brings us into the lives of these homeless story by story case by case sharing his personal interviews with these misfortunate people. Instead of putting a empty face on what we normally walk by and think nothing of, Kozol shows us that these individuals were not just mere vermin but people whom grew up like any of us but for any which reason now are homelss. Kozol does an excellet job in showing us not only these poeples lives but also educates the reader in exactly how big of a problem homelessness in America actually is. After reading this book my understanding, knowledge, and compassion of how homeless are actually treated is rought into full perepective. The book has great readabillity and is compelling enough to keep you flipping the pages. I would recomend this book to anyone and think very highly of it
-Matt
Rating: 4
Summary: Failure to Thrive
Comment: The term used in this book that describes the endangered status of an infant is "failure to thrive." As I translate the phrase, "failure to thrive" indicates the hopelessness of a child's future, the result of neglect from society, the dwindling of life. Jonathan Kozol's review of homeless families in America is a chilling depiction of the actual heartache and suffering endured by the homeless. So often does society lose sight of what it truly means to not have a place to call "home."
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Title: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060974990 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Amazing Grace : Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060976977 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow ISBN: 014024137X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0452262925 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope by Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 0060956453 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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