Randall Robinson

The Reckoning (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Reckoning, Randall Robinson examines the crime and poverty that grips much of urban America and urges black Americans to speak out and reach back to ensure their social and economic success in this country. With insight, compassion, and unflinching honesty, Robinson explores the twin blights of crime and poverty—the former often a symptom of the latter—and asks questions that are critical to the rebuilding of black communities: How do we create awareness of the heroic efforts already being made and how can we bring our troubled youth to safety? A product of Robinson's work with gang members, ex-convicts, and others who have been scarred by the harshness of life in our inner cities, The Reckoning is certain to be as important and controversial as his earlier books.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101191699
• Artikelnr.: 44959540

Autorenporträt

Randall Robinson is the founder and president of TransAfrica, the organization that spearheaded the movement to influence U.S. policies toward international black leadership. He is the author of Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks and The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe To Each Other. Frequently featured in major print media, he has appeared on Charlie Rose, Today, Good Morning America, and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

The ReckoningIntroduction
1. The Luncheon
2. My Thoughts As Peewee Waits to Speak
3. Peewee's Speach
4. Deja Vu
5. Playing the Hand You Are Dealt
6. Peewee's Revenge
7. The Aspiring American Entrepreneur
8. Peewee's Father
9. Wadleigh Junior High School
10. Peewee and the White Stockbroker
11. Wealth, Privilege, Social Class, and Race
12. Washington, D.C., in the Year 2076
13. New York, 1964
14. False Exits
15. Peewee Goes to Prison
16. New Child Lynch
17. Walk-up Retail
18. Aubrey Lynch
19. Peewee and New Child: Saving Themselves and Saving Others
Afterword
My Plea
Index
Acknowledgments