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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Negroid Men
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Medical edifice taught Evangelist Rich how to care with fleshly trauma in a bounteous municipality infirmary but not with the disturbing fact that teen black men were regular shot, stabbed, and beaten. This is Rich’s statement of his individualized see to encounter significance in the location of his chronicle and theirs.
Young black men in cities are irresistibly the victims — and perpetrators — of ferocious evildoing in the United States. Troubled by this tragedy — and by his scrutiny colleagues’ manifest numbness in the grappling of it — Rich, a black Negro who grew up in qualifying country and comfort, reached discover to some of these teen evildoing victims to see ground they lived in a ostensibly long wheel of hostility and how it strained them. The stories they told him are unsettling — and disclosing most the actuality of chronicle in dweller cities.
Mixing his possess appearance with their seldom-heard voices, Rich relates the stories of teen black men whose lives were violently disrupted — and of their struggles to ameliorate and rest innocuous in an surround that both denied their trauma and blamed them for their injuries. He tells us of grouping much as Roy, a past take moneyman who fought to invoke his chronicle around and institute himself torn between the assist of backward to the information of chronicle on the ferocious streets of Beantown and the tenuous prospect of accepting a new, inferior chanceful one.
Rich’s moving semblance humanizes teen black men and illustrates the complexness of a status that defies cushy answers and solutions.
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Negroid Men
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