Children of Crisis Reader

by Coles, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780316155472
• ISBN10: 0316155470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States. Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of crisis":
- African American children caught in the throes of the South's racial integration;
- The children of impoverished migrant workers in Appalachia;
- Children whose families were transformed by the migration from South to North, from rural to urban communities;
- Latino, Native American, and Eskimo children in the poorest communities of the American West;
- The children of America's wealthiest families confronting the burden of their own privilege.
This volume restores to print a masterwork of psychological and sociological inquiry--a book that, in its focus on how children learn and develop in the face of rapid change and social upheaval, speaks directly and pointe

Author Biography

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, and the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
A Study of Courage and Fear	p. 1
The South	p. 3
When I Draw the Lord He'll Be a Real Big Man	p. 12
The Students	p. 39
The Matter of Chocolate	p. 39
Pioneer Youth: John Washington	p. 48
The Teachers	p. 68
Teaching the Teacher: Miss Lawrence	p. 68
The Protesters	p. 78
Larry	p. 78
After Joe Holmes	p. 90
The Integrationist South	p. 95
"I'm the True Southerner": Mrs. Trumbull	p. 95
Stay Home or Go to School?	p. 104
Lookers-On and the Last Ditch	p. 109
A Store Is a Store	p. 109
The Last Ditch	p. 114
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers	p. 129
The Land	p. 131
The Children	p. 149
Uprooted Children	p. 149
Stranded Children	p. 207
Hidden Children	p. 261
The South Goes North	p. 305
The Streets	p. 307
Blacks in the City	p. 327
I Am Black and Nothing Else	p. 327
To Hell with All of You	p. 337
Orin	p. 344
The Wanderers	p. 349
My Room	p. 357
Black Fathers	p. 363
Who Speaks for Us?	p. 368
White Visitors	p. 376
Law and Order: That's All There Is	p. 376
The Welfare Lady	p. 386
My Buildings	p. 393
White Northerners	p. 402
What Have We Done?	p. 402
Laura	p. 408
In the Places Where the Mountains Are Gone	p. 414
Work and No Work	p. 414
Sally	p. 424
Those Places They Call Schools	p. 435
Ghetto Schools	p. 437
Mixed Schools	p. 446
Committed Schools	p. 454
Vitality and Violence, Life and Death	p. 461
Vitality in Ghetto Children	p. 466
Violence in Ghetto Children	p. 472
Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians	p. 481
Once and Still the Frontier	p. 483
Eskimo Children	p. 504
Custodian of a Spirit	p. 504
Young Leader	p. 513
A Modern Girl	p. 525
Chicano Children	p. 533
In Texas: Carmen	p. 533
A Barrio Game	p. 552
Indian Children	p. 559
Pueblo Children on the Boundary Line	p. 559
Keeping an Eye on the White Man	p. 570
Hopi Girl	p. 581
Privileged Ones	p. 591
Comfortable, Comfortable Places	p. 593
The Children	p. 611
Defender of the Garden District	p. 611
Grandchild of a Mine Owner	p. 632
Withdrawal	p. 650
Rich in the Barrio	p. 659
Entitlement	p. 666
What Profit Under the Sun?	p. 688
Index	p. 695
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