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Children of Crisis

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ISBN-10: 0316151025

ISBN-13: 9780316151023

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert Coles, Terry Adams

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 7/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry & medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, & the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Children of Crisis" series as well as the best-selling "The Spiritual Life of Children" & "The Moral Intelligence of Children". Dr. Coles is a founding editor of the award-winning magazine "DoubleTake".

Introduction
A Study of Courage and Fear
The South
When I Draw the Lord He'll Be a Real Big Man
The Students
The Matter of Chocolate
Pioneer Youth: John Washington
The Teachers
Teaching the Teacher: Miss Lawrence
The Protesters
Larry
After Joe Holmes
The Integrationist South
"I'm the True Southerner": Mrs. Trumbull
Stay Home or Go to School?
Lookers-On and the Last Ditch
A Store Is a Store
The Last Ditch
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
The Land
The Children
Uprooted Children
Stranded Children
Hidden Children
The South Goes North
The Streets
Blacks in the City
I Am Black and Nothing Else
To Hell with All of You
Orin
The Wanderers
My Room
Black Fathers
Who Speaks for Us?
White Visitors
Law and Order: That's All There Is
The Welfare Lady
My Buildings
White Northerners
What Have We Done?
Laura
In the Places Where the Mountains Are Gone
Work and No Work
Sally
Those Places They Call Schools
Ghetto Schools
Mixed Schools
Committed Schools
Vitality and Violence, Life and Death
Vitality in Ghetto Children
Violence in Ghetto Children
Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians
Once and Still the Frontier
Eskimo Children
Custodian of a Spirit
Young Leader
A Modern Girl
Chicano Children
In Texas: Carmen
A Barrio Game
Indian Children
Pueblo Children on the Boundary Line
Keeping an Eye on the White Man
Hopi Girl
Privileged Ones
Comfortable, Comfortable Places
The Children
Defender of the Garden District
Grandchild of a Mine Owner
Withdrawal
Rich in the Barrio
Entitlement
What Profit Under the Sun?
Index