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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:449691698:3519
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100 1 $aDash, Leon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88056695
245 10 $aRosa Lee :$ba mother and her family in urban America /$cLeon Dash.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBasicBooks,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a279 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aFor four years, reporter Leon Dash followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her eight children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to capture the stark reality of life in the growing black underclass. As a black journalist troubled by the crisis in urban America, he wanted readers to share his discomfort and alarm.
520 8 $aDash's reports in the Washington Post touched a powerful nerve - 4,600 readers called the paper in response - and received critical acclaim as well, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. (The Kennedy prize board called his series a "tour de force" that "sets the standard for reporting about poverty.") Dash continued reporting even after his articles were published, and in this book he provides the complete, unvarnished family portrait.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aBut Leon Dash does more than simply report facts; he becomes an integral part of Rosa Lee's daily life, driving her to the methadone clinic, helping her read her mail, visiting her in the hospital. While maintaining his journalistic distance - he never lends her money or intervenes with the city bureaucracy - Dash can't help forging a powerful bond with Rosa Lee.
520 8 $aOnce, after uncharacteristically losing his temper, Dash offers an apology, which she waves aside. "That lets me know that you're really concerned about me," she says. "That means a lot to a woman like me, who has been used and misused. People don't give a damn about me!"
520 8 $aRosa Lee's life story challenges the pieties of left and right: she has made choices that were often unwise and has paid the price for her actions, but through it all she cares about doing the right thing, even if she cannot always find the inner strength to do so.
520 8 $aWhen she agreed to let Dash chronicle her life, she said simply, "Maybe I can help somebody not follow in my footsteps." Those who read this poignant and provocative portrait will find that Rosa Lee's voice is one than cannot be ignored, and through her experiences we see the magnitude of the problems facing urban America today.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions$vCase studies.
600 10 $aCunningham, Rosa Lee,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96036290
650 0 $aPoor$zWashington (D.C.)$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aDrug addicts$zWashington (D.C.)
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xDrug use$zWashington (D.C.)
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial conditions.
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