Free shipping on orders over $79 * - Limited time only - *T&Cs apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Rosa Lee : A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America - Leon Dash

Rosa Lee

A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America

By: Leon Dash

eBook | 2 June 2015 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook

$13.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $3.50 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America's black underclass. Rosa Lee's life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing projects of Southeast Washington, a stone's throw from the marble halls and civic monuments of the world's most prosperous nation. Yet for all of America's efforts, Rosa Lee and millions like her remain trapped in a cycle of poverty characterized by illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, drugs, and violent crime.Dash brings us into her life and the lives of her family members offering a human drama that statistics can only refer to. He also shows how some people—including two of Rosa Lee's children—have made it out of the ghetto, breaking the cycle to lead stable middle-class lives in the mainstream of American society.
on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial GroupsEthnic StudiesBlack & Asian StudiesBiographies & True Stories BiographiesSocial Issues & ProcessesPoverty & Unemployment

More in Black & Asian Studies

The Known World : A Novel - Edward P. Jones

eBOOK

The Known World

A Novel

eBook

$14.99

Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston

eBOOK

Mules and Men

eBook

$26.99

Redbone : The Millionaire and the Gold Digger - Ron Stodghill

eBOOK

Redbone

The Millionaire and the Gold Digger

eBook

RRP $16.99

$13.63

20%
OFF
All Aunt Hagar's Children : Stories - Edward P. Jones

eBOOK

All Aunt Hagar's Children

Stories

eBook

RRP $28.99

$23.99

17%
OFF

This product is categorised by