{"product_id":"central-citys-joy-and-pain-solidarity-survival-and-soul-in-a-birmingham-housing-project-paperback","title":"Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome E. Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eCentral City's Joy and Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968-91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-housing residents' experiences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Morris's experiential and authoritative narrative voice unfolds in the pages of \u003ci\u003eCentral City's Joy and Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, both the scholarly and lay reader are brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center. The setting of a historic public-housing community provides a rich canvas on which to paint a world through the author's personal experience of growing up there--and his later observations as a researcher and academic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough its syncopation of personal stories and scholarly research, \u003ci\u003eCentral City's Joy and Pain \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures what it means to be Black, poor, and full of dreams. In this setting, dreams are realized by some and swallowed up for others in the larger historical, social, economic, and political context of African Americans' experiences during and after the civil rights movement.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJEROME E. MORRIS is the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Waters: Fulfilling the Promise of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children\u003c\/i\u003e. An award-winning researcher, Morris has published extensively in leading research journals such as the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Educational Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeachers College Record\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEducational Researcher\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReview of Research in Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEducational Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUrban Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKappan\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776663355680,"sku":"9780820365756","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d6d894203e692d59063d332c3613458f.webp?v=1780482975","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/central-citys-joy-and-pain-solidarity-survival-and-soul-in-a-birmingham-housing-project-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}