"The Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood.(Critical Essay)

From: African American Review | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

We watch strange moods fill our children, and our hearts swell with pain. The streets, with their noise and flaring lights, the taverns, the automobiles, and the poolrooms claim them, and no voice of ours can call them back.... We cannot keep them in school; more than 1,000,000 of our black boys and girls of high school age are not in school.... It is not their eagerness to fight that makes us afraid, but that they go to death on city pavements faster than even disease and starvation can take them. As the courts and the morgues become crowded with our lost children, the hearts of ...

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