Children of Crisis Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Five-volume Children of Crisis Series ; with a New Introduction by the Author
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States. Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of crisis": - African American children caught in the throes of the South's racial integration; - The children of impoverished migrant workers in Appalachia; - Children whose families were transformed by the migration from South to North, from rural to urban communities; - Latino, Native American, and Eskimo children in the poorest communities of the American West; - The children of America's wealthiest families confronting the burden of their own privilege. This volume restores to print a masterwork of psychological and sociological inquiry--a book that, in its focus on how children learn and develop in theface of rapid change and social upheaval, speaks directly and pointedly to our own times. - An intensely readable book--as oral history, as sociological investigation, as psychiatric study, CHILDREN OF CRISIS is utterly fascinating and without peer. - Certain to receive major review attention in light of Coles' reputation. - His highly successful books include the bestselling The Spiritual Life of Children, The Moral Intelligence of Children, and, most recently,