Home is a dirty street : the social oppression of Black children / by Eugene Perkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Useni Eugene.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children.

African Americans--Psychology.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 193 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, 1975.

Summary:

This work is a reflection of the author's 16 years of working with Black urban children in Chicago. Perkins explains how systematic oppression prevents urban Black children from achieving their true potential.

Contents:

North Lawndale: Anatomy of a Black Ghetcolony

Home is a Dirty Street: Culture of Black Children

The Street Institution: Survival School for Black Children

The Teenage Enigma: Culture of the Street Gang

Ghetcolonly Lifestyles: Few Alternatives

The Mis-Education of Black Children

The Benevolent Oppressor: Myth of Social Service Agencies

Law and Order: Two Standards, Black and White

Everybody's Scapegoat: The Black Family

Black is Beautiful: Self Concepts of Black Children

To Be Young Gifted and Black: The Potential of Black Children

Beyond Survival: Formation of Alternative Institutions

Epilogue: The New Black Child.

Notes:

"Cover design by Beni Casselle."

"Front and Back cover photo by K. Kofi Moyo."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-193).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition First Printing".

ISBN:

0883780488 :

OCLC:

1975860