The Resource Survival math : notes on an all-American family, Mitchell S. Jackson
Survival math : notes on an all-American family, Mitchell S. Jackson
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The item Survival math : notes on an all-American family, Mitchell S. Jackson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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- Summary
- With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs, prostitution, gangs, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country's whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers, gangs and guns, near-death experiences, composite fathers, the concept of "hustle," and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family. In examining the conflicts within his family and community, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America--an exploration of the forces that shaped his life, his city, and the lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published novelist, he gives us a heartbreaking, fascinating, lovingly rendered view of the injustices and victories, large and small, that defined his youth. --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xv, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501131707
- Label
- Survival math : notes on an all-American family
- Title
- Survival math
- Title remainder
- notes on an all-American family
- Statement of responsibility
- Mitchell S. Jackson
- Subject
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- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- truePacific Northwest
- truePortland, Oregon
- trueSurvival
- trueAfrican American families
- African American families -- Oregon | Portland -- Biography
- African American men -- Oregon | Portland -- Biography
- trueAfrican American neighborhoods
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAuthors
- Autobiographies
- trueDrug addiction
- trueDrug traffic
- trueGhettoes, African American
- trueGrowing up
- trueImprisonment
- Jackson Mitchell S
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs, prostitution, gangs, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country's whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers, gangs and guns, near-death experiences, composite fathers, the concept of "hustle," and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family. In examining the conflicts within his family and community, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America--an exploration of the forces that shaped his life, his city, and the lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published novelist, he gives us a heartbreaking, fascinating, lovingly rendered view of the injustices and victories, large and small, that defined his youth. --
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- amazon.com
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- 10760062
- Cataloging source
- TOH
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- Jackson, Mitchell S
- Dewey number
- 305.896/073079549
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E185.86
- LC item number
- .J332 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Jackson Mitchell S
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- African American families
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- notes on an all-American family
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- Survival math : notes on an all-American family, Mitchell S. Jackson
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- Control code
- on1084367110
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xv, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501131707
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- Survival math : notes on an all-American family, Mitchell S. Jackson
- Carrier category
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- nc
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- txt
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- Control code
- on1084367110
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xv, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501131707
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1084367110
Subject
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- truePacific Northwest
- truePortland, Oregon
- trueSurvival
- trueAfrican American families
- African American families -- Oregon | Portland -- Biography
- African American men -- Oregon | Portland -- Biography
- trueAfrican American neighborhoods
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAuthors
- Autobiographies
- trueDrug addiction
- trueDrug traffic
- trueGhettoes, African American
- trueGrowing up
- trueImprisonment
- Jackson Mitchell S
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