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Cuz The Life and Times of Michael A by Danielle Allen

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Cuz  The Life and Times of Michael A  by Danielle Allen


Cuz The Life and Times of Michael A by Danielle Allen
epub | 15.47 MB | English | Isbn:B06XNK3466 | Author: Danielle Allen | PAge: 252 | Year: 2017



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So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it ?makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?
Cuz means both "cousin" and "because." In this searing memoir, Allen unfurls a "new American story" about a world tragically transformed by the sudden availability of narcotics and the rise of street gangs-a collision, followed by a reactionary War on Drugs, that would devastate not only South Central L.A. but virtually...


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