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Title Statement | Survival math: notes on an all-American family / Mitchell S. Jackson. |
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Author | Jackson, Mitchell S |
Publication | New York: Scribner,2019. |
Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | xv, 315 pages |
ISBN | 1501131702 9781501131707 |
Other Number | 3338236 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | Mitchell S. Jackson 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. 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. |
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By Topic | African American men--Biography--Oregon--Portland |
African American families--Biography--Oregon--Portland | |
By Name | Jackson, Mitchell S |