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Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America
by Leon Dash
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Basic Books (1996-08-22)
ISBN: 0465070922
EAN: 9780465070923
Dewey Decimal #: 305.896073
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 288 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 06426
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: SIGNED and inscribed by author, minor edge wear on dust jacket.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Based a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in The Washington Post, the story of a poor, middle-aged black woman from Washington, D.C., recounts her children's attempts to escape the ghetto. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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Amazon.com Review
Drug-addled, welfare-using and AIDS-infected, Rosa Lee--a black woman living in the slums of Washington, D.C.--shines an enormous amount of light on the seemingly intractable problems of the underclass by allowing Leon Dash to tell her story. You won't find any diagrams or number-crunching in this book, just an absorbing tale of inner-city despair. Dash won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles on Rosa Lee for the Washington Post. The book is even better--easily the best of its type since Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here.
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Customer Reviews
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One of the all time great pieces of journalism
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-07-14
Dash uses the articles he wrote in his Pulitzer Prize winning series as jump off points to go more in-depth into Rosa Lee's life and family than he could in the newspaper. Must read for anyone wanting to understand poverty.
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Rating (5)
Date: 2010-06-20
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Rosa Lee Cunningham was a relative of mine. Although I really did not know that much about her, it was still sad to read what she, my cousins(her children) went through in urban Washington,DC. I feel sad for my grandmother(Rosetta) as well because even though she moved from North Carolina to Washington, DC to get away from the abuse of white people and make a better life for herself, she suffered too. As an African-American woman, we are considered the low man on the totem pole. Black men think they have it bad to survive in society-no no! Black women such as my grandmother and my aunt Rosa Lee have carried the weight of America on our backs. Both my paternal and maternal grandmothers have endured so much growing up in the south. My maternal grandmother raised 13 children and had aspirations of becoming a teacher but let people including her husband who could not read. She and her children worked in the fields to make ends meet. My paternal grandmother however, raised her children often by herself but managed to sell dinner plates and own an ice cream truck when she was not cleaning houses for whites in Washington,DC. Listening to my family members tell their memories of my grandmothers has inspired me to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I can see my grandmothers and I cry from sadness as well as joy because of them, I am a strong black woman and I am raising my daughter to be one. AUNT ROSA LEE-R.I.P.! I LOVE YOU! AND THANKS TO MR. DASH FOR PROVIDING ME WITH FAMILY HISTORY TO HELP ME AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS TO BREAK THE CYCLE!!!!
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Highly recommend this read!
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-01-03
Very interesting and inspiring true story. I have heard the author is a very impressive public speaker; he still teaches at UIC and still does lectures. Would recommend going if you are at all interested in social work, public relations, nursing, etc.
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Another world
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-05-01
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This was required reading for a nursing class. I was completely engrossed in Rosa's story and the system. It really gives the reader a terribly rude awakening to a completely different world within our own country. Maddening and enlightening at the same time-
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EXCELLENT in every way
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-05
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book draws you in, in every way. Exceptionally writen to the point where you feel a true connection to the story whether or not you agree or disagree - it will bring out emotion either negative or positive from its reader. Dash delves deep into the real lives an urban family and their struggles and sheds light on situations that many don't realize are the everyday lives of some Americans. This book will make you think deeply about poverty and the decisions that some are forced to make on a daily basis. Whether you agree or disagree with the issues in the book, it is DEFINATELY worth reading.
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