Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Narrated by Dick Hill
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. Unlike his previous books, however, Ordinary Resurrections is almost entirely narrative and takes us into the fascinating details of daily life as he has lived it with young children who befriended him over the course of several years.
Like Amazing Grace, this book describes the children of New York's South Bronx, but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point. Here, we see life through the eyes of the children, not, as Kozol puts it, from the perspective of a grown-up man encumbered by a Harvard education. Here, too, we meet some dedicated and inspired teachers in an underfunded but upbeat public elementary school, and we return once more to St. Ann's Church and meet the parents and religious figures in the children's lives.
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathon Kozol has been awarded the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His previous books include Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities. He lives in Byfield, Massachusetts.
More audiobooks from Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Teacher Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Ordinary Resurrections
Related audiobooks
Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStart Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Real American: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Fine Line: How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTeaching for Justice & Belonging: A Journey for Educators & Parents Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMotherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nature of a Woman: Navigating Her 4-Week Mood Cycle Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Lawyer Black Power: A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Think Black: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOpen Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebuild the Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Girl Named Lovely: One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Relationships For You
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You’re Not the Only One F*cking Up: Breaking the Endless Cycle of Dating Mistakes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lonely Dad Conversations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/58 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Moms Are Not Alright: Inside America's New Parenting Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love, Revised Edition: Relationship Repair in a Flash Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radiolab: The Feels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Boundaries in Marriage: Understanding the Choices That Make or Break Loving Relationships Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Dream House: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dad on Pills: Fatherhood and Mental Illness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Ordinary Resurrections
32 ratings0 reviews