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The other side of prospect : a story of violence, injustice, and the American city

Title: The other side of prospect : a story of violence, injustice, and the American city / Nicholas Dawidoff.
Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
Publication: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]

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442 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity. In The Other Side of Prospect, he has produced an immersive portrait of a seminal community in an old American city now beset by division and gun violence. Tracing the histories of three people whose lives meet in tragedy-victim Pete Fields, likely murderer Major, and Bobby-Dawidoff indelibly describes optimistic families coming north from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration, for the promise of opportunity and upward mobility, and the harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Foremost are the unique challenges confronted by children like Major and Bobby coming of age in their "forgotten" neighborhood, steps from Yale University. After years in prison, with the help of a true-believing lawyer, Bobby is finally set free. His subsequent struggles with the memories of prison, and his heartbreaking efforts to reconnect with family and community, exemplify the challenges the formerly incarcerated face upon reentry into society and, writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, make this "the best book about the crisis of incarceration in America." The Other Side of Prospect is a reportorial tour de force, at once a sweeping account of how the injustices of racism and inequality reverberate through the generations, and a beautifully written portrait of American city life, told through a group of unforgettable people and their intertwined experiences"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prospect Street -- Part 1: Pop-pop -- Part 2: Just around -- Part 3: The stickup kid and the innocent boy -- Part 4: True believer -- Part 5: Reentry -- Part 6: American dreams -- Epilogue: prospects.

Call Number

Sc E 23-235

ISBN

9781324002024
1324002026
9781324002031 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022036538

OCLC

1296531858
1296531858

Author

Dawidoff, Nicholas, author.

Title

The other side of prospect : a story of violence, injustice, and the American city / Nicholas Dawidoff.

Publisher

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-235

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