Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XNK3466 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 433 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The corrosive entanglements of gang warfare, combined with a star-crossed love for a gorgeous woman driving a gold Mercedes, would ultimately be Michael’s undoing.In this Ellisonian story of a young African American man’s coming-of-age in late twentieth-century America, and of the family who will always love Michael, we learn how we lost an entire generation.. When she finally welcomed her baby cousin home, she adopted the role of "cousin on duty," devotedly supporting Michael’s fresh start while juggling the demands of her own academic career.As Cuz heartbreakingly reveals, even Allen’s devotion, as unwavering as it was, could not save Michael from the brutal realities encountered by newly released yo
. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Danielle Allen is the James Conant Bryant University Professor at Harvard University and author of Cuz and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize
“A literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Danielle Allen’s Cuz is an elegiac memoir and social jeremiad born out of the tragedy of mass incarceration. Coetzee“In this narrative of freedom and incarceration, education and disadvantage, rehabilitation and punishment, Danielle Allen paints an unforgettable portrait of a cousin she loved. The pacing is brisk and novelistic, but the message is large and clear: we need urgently to reform the system through which we process juveniles who commit crime, because the current system perpetuates the very injustices it was designed to addre