Title Amazing grace : the lives of children and the conscience of a nation / Jonathan Kozol.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	286 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Summary	Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation. Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires, and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place. Although it is a gently written work, Amazing Grace makes clear that the postmodern ghetto of America is not a social accident but is created and sustained by greed, neglect, racism, and expedience. It asks us questions that are, at once, political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How tough do we dare to be?
Awards	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1996.
Subject	Poor children -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Children with social disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Children of minorities -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Sick children -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Inner cities -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Mott Haven (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
	Children -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Disabled Persons. (DNLM)D006233
	New York. (DNLM)D009518
	Children of minorities. (OCoLC)fst00855435
	Children with social disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00855655
	Inner cities. (OCoLC)fst00973711
	Poor children. (OCoLC)fst01071167
	Sick children. (OCoLC)fst01118066
	Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
	New York (State) -- New York -- Mott Haven. (OCoLC)fst01321603
Other Form:	Online version: Kozol, Jonathan. Amazing grace. 1st ed. New York : Crown, ©1995 (OCoLC)604293116
ISBN	0517799995
	9780517799994

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