Welfare Brat

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ISBN: 9781582345895

ISBN-10: 1582345899

ISBN-13: 9781582345895

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Authors: Mary Childers

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" Exceptional... A classic American success story, Horatio Alger's "Ragged Dick "come true, told here utterly without self-congratulation or sentimentality." "-- ""Washington"" Post" Mary Childers's intimate and frank memoir tells the story of growing up in a family in which five out of seven children dropped out of high school and four different fathers dropped out of sight. With this lyrical and often humorous examination of how she became the first person in her family to attend college, Childers illuminates the causes of welfare dependence, generational poverty, and submission to a popular culture that values sexuality more than self-esteem and self-sufficiency.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



Cherry Pie



Sleepwalking Toward the Horizon



Pants and Jackets



Triumph and Shame



Coney Island



Moving



Miracles



Shakespeare



Fresh Air Fund



Huddled Couples



Birthdays



A New Apartment



The Watch



Grand Concourse



Belonging



Thigh Gliding



Lessons



Carnival Secrets



Malcolm X and the Scarlet A



Mace



Summer Camp



Mother's Helper



Serendipity



Ed Sullivan



Advice



Rumors of Riots



School Strikes



Sex and the Inner City



Envelopes



Dead Man's Float



Rapprochement


Afterword: Country Music, 1982


Author's Note