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A 5 page discussion of the factors causing the extreme poverty and hardship illustrated in this book by Alex Kotliwitz. Far from fictional the gangs, violence, and drugs depicted in this book are very real and to overcome them we have to somehow dissolve the social stratification which has separated mainstream America from the “other America” throughout our history. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Alex Kotlowitzs "There Are No Children Here" provides an insight to what the author refers to
as "the other America". In this "other America", a Chicago housing project, we find two boys (Lageyette and Pharoah) struggling to escape the gangs, violence, and drugs which threaten
to overtake them. Theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most of us in mainstream America have come
to expect. Indeed, the author of the book himself is astounded by the contrast which exist between life in inner city Chicago and life in mainstream America. This
book raises many questions. How can we expect to intercede in such instances to better the lives of those that are so dramatically oppressed? How can we or
the author for that matter understand this "other" world and have any valid sociological perspective on it? What is our role in righting the wrongs that confront us?
The circumstances that are unveiled in Alex Kotlowitzs "There Are No Children Here" are far from fictional. Indeed, this book vividly portrays the
harsh reality which so many of us have refused to acknowledge. The same factors which have resulted in the circumstances revealed in "There Are No Children Here" are, in
fact, still at play throughout much of America. These factors perpetuate the type of poverty revealed in the book and the welfare system which has been put in place
to abolish it. These factors result time and time again in the same fatalistic attitude by those trapped in poverty as that voiced in "There Are No Children Here":
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