Our America : Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Table of Contents

Preface 11(2)
Dr. Cornel West
Acknowledgments 13(4)
Introduction 17(6)
David Isay
Author's Note 23(2)
A Ghetto Glossary 25(4)
Part I Life-1993
The Beginning
29(4)
The Hood
33(4)
School
37(10)
Kicking It
47(4)
LeAlan
51(14)
Lloyd
65(10)
Ghetto Getaway
75(8)
Peace Out: 1993
83(4)
Part II Death-1995
Messengers
87(2)
The Scene of the Crime
89(12)
From the Outside, Looking In
101(6)
A Breakthrough
107(6)
Juvenile Justice
113(8)
Falling Through the Cracks
121(6)
Both Sides of the Law
127(8)
Shorties in the 'Hood
135(8)
Closer Than We Imagined
143(4)
Remorse
147(12)
Part III Life-1996
The Maze
159(4)
The Hood
163(4)
School
167(6)
LeAlan
173(14)
Lloyd
187(8)
Parting Words
195(4)
Our America
199

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