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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma - Hardcover

Kotlowitz, Alex

 
9780385477208: The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385477201 ISBN 13: 9780385477208
Verlag: Doubleday, 1998

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The author of the acclaimed best-seller There Are No Children Here explores America's racial antagonisms through the story of two Michigan towns--one white and wealthy, the other black and poor--and a black boy's death and its repercussions. Tour.

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tz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by Oprah Winfrey, won many distinguished awards, and sparked a continuing national debate on the lives of inner-city children.



In The Other Side of the River, his eagerly awaited new book, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is foun

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385477201
ISBN 13 
9780385477208
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
317
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