Amazing Grace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Kozol
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Principal Characters: Alice Washington, Charlayne, Gizelle Luke, Juan Batista Castro, The Reverend Martha Overall, The Reverend Gregory Groover, The children of the South Bronx
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Social issues
- Subjects: Segregation or integration, Children, Homelessness or homeless people, Social reform, Twentieth century, New York City, Social work, Poverty or poor people, Government, 1990’s, Public housing, Urban life
- Locales: Bronx, NY
Jonathan Kozol’s books on children, the poor, and the homeless, beginning with Death at an Early Age (1967) and continuing more recently with Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991) and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, are powerful and personal evocations of the plight of the poor of the United States, and ultimately condemnations of a society and government that would allow these conditions to exist.
Amazing Grace takes readers to the South Bronx, one of the largest and poorest racially...
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