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Staples, Brent

 
9780679421542: Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
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ISBN 10 : 0679421548 ISBN 13 : 9780679421542
Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1994

Synopsis

An African-American reporter reflects on his place in a predominantly white world and describes the transformation of the town in which he was raised from a thriving industrial city to a slum ridden with crime and drugs. 17,500 first printing. Tour.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle?

As the oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. Scholarship opportunities pulled him out of the black world where he had grown up into a world largely defined by whites. Meanwhile, as the industries that supported his hometown failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void, news of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored his precarious perch in a mostly white environment. The death of his younger brother -- a cocaine dealer murdered by one of his "clients" -- propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood that offers vivid portraits of family values that supported, pressures that tore apart, and the appeal and pain of living as an adult in a world that was literally and figuratively miles away from the one he knew as a child.

Biographie de l'auteur

Brent Staples received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago. Currently a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he has been an assistant metropolitan editor of the Times, an editor of the New York Times Book Review, and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Éditeur
Pantheon Books
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679421548
ISBN 13 
9780679421542
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
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