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Children of Crisis

Robert Coles

What do children caught in a time of social upheaval see and feel, when you listen to them directly?

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Author
Robert Coles

Why read it

  • You will learn to listen to children as teachers of what a country is doing, not just as subjects
  • You will see what children's drawings and words reveal about the world they live in
  • You will understand how children of the poor and of the wealthy grow up in very different Americas

Who it is for

  • A teacher or parent who wants to hear children better
  • A student of child psychology or social history
  • A reader who wants the people behind civil rights era headlines

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. I
  3. The South
  4. When I Draw the Lord He’ll Be a Real Big Man
  5. The Students
  6. The Matter of Chocolate
  7. Pioneer Youth: John Washington
  8. The Teachers
  9. Teaching the Teacher: Miss Lawrence
  10. The Protesters
  11. Larry
  12. After Joe Holmes
  13. The Integrationist South
  14. “I’m the True Southerner”: Mrs. Trumbull
  15. Stay Home or Go to School?
  16. Lookers-On and the Last Ditch
  17. A Store Is a Store
  18. The Last Ditch
  19. II
  20. The Land
  21. The Children
  22. Uprooted Children
  23. Stranded Children
  24. Hidden Children
  25. III
  26. The Streets
  27. Blacks in the City
  28. I Am Black and Nothing Else
  29. To Hell with All of You
  30. Orin
  31. The Wanderers
  32. My Room
  33. Black Fathers
  34. Who Speaks for Us?
  35. White Visitors
  36. Law and Order: That’s All There Is
  37. The Welfare Lady
  38. My Buildings
  39. White Northerners
  40. What Have We Done?
  41. Laura
  42. In the Places Where the Mountains Are Gone
  43. Work and No Work
  44. Sally
  45. Those Places They Call Schools
  46. Ghetto Schools
  47. Mixed Schools
  48. Committed Schools
  49. Vitality and Violence, Life and Death
  50. Vitality in Ghetto Children
  51. Violence in Ghetto Children
  52. IV
  53. Once and Still the Frontier
  54. Eskimo Children
  55. Custodian of a Spirit
  56. Young Leader
  57. A Modern Girl
  58. Chicano Children
  59. In Texas: Carmen
  60. A Barrio Game

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