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Younge, Gary author.
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Violence -- United States -- Case studies.
Violent crimes -- United States -- Case studies.
Youth and violence -- United States -- Case studies.
Firearms and crime -- United States -- Case studies.
Firearms ownership -- United States -- Case studies.
Bereavement -- United States.
Grief -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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Another day in the d...
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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives / Gary Younge.
by
Younge, Gary author.
Subjects
Violence
--
United
States
--
Case
studies
.
Violent crimes
--
United
States
--
Case
studies
.
Youth
and
violence
--
United
States
--
Case
studies
.
Firearms and crime
--
United
States
--
Case
studies
.
Firearms ownership
--
United
States
--
Case
studies
.
Bereavement
--
United
States
.
Grief
--
United
States
.
United
States
--
Social conditions
--
1980-
Publisher Info:
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
©2016
Edition:
First print edition.
Description:
xxii, 267 pages ; 25 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9781568589756
1568589751
9781568589763
Contents:
Jaiden Dixon, Grove City, Ohio
--
Kenneth Mills-Tucker, Indianapolis, Indiana
--
Stanley Taylor, Charlotte, North Carolina
--
Pedro Cortez, San Jose, California
--
Tyler Dunn, Marlette, Michigan
--
Edwin Rajo, Houston, Texas
--
Samuel Brightmon, Dallas, Texas
--
Tyshon Anderson, Chicago, Illinois
--
Gary Anderson, Newark, New Jersey
--
Gustin Hinnant, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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Summary:
"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the
United
States
. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the powerful human stories behind the statistics. Far from a dry account of gun policy in the
United
States
or a polemic about the dangers of gun
violence
, the book is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind. Whether it's a father's unspeakable grief over his son who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, a mentor who tries to channel his rage by organizing, or a friend and neighbor who finds strength in faith, the lives lost on that day and the lives left behind become, in Younge's hands, impossible to ignore, or to forget. What emerges in these pages is a searing portrait of
youth
, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant on any day in America. At a time when it has become indisputable that Americans need to rethink their position on guns, this moving narrative work puts a human face--a child's face--on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. In his journalism, Younge is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and looking twice where others might look away. There are some things, he argues, that we have come to see as normal, even when they are unacceptable. And gun
violence
is one of them. A clear-eyed and iconoclastic approach to this contentious issue, this book helps answer the questions so many of us are grappling with, and makes it even harder to just look away"
--
On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. Younge chose November 23, 2013, with ten such deaths, and over a period of twenty-four hours reveals the powerful human stories behind the statistics. The result is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind.
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