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008    190128s2019    nyua          000 0 eng d 
020    9781501131707|q(hardcover) :|c$26.00 
020    1501131702|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1084367110 
040    TOH|beng|cTOH|dGZD|dDAD|dQQ3|dIK2|dORL 
049    ORLL 
092    B|bJACKSON 
100 1  Jackson, Mitchell S.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Survival math :|bnotes on an all-American family /
       |cMitchell S. Jackson. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc.,
       |c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xv, 315 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative,
       and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson 
       candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other 
       America. Survival Math takes its name from the 
       calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to
       stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood
       in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, 
       and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal
       reckoning and a vital addition to the national 
       conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of
       his childhood, tracing the ways in which his family 
       managed their lives in and around drugs, prostitution, 
       gangs, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black 
       population in one of the country's whitest cities. He 
       discusses sex work and serial killers, gangs and guns, 
       near-death experiences, composite fathers, the concept of 
       "hustle," and the destructive power of drugs and addiction
       on family. In examining the conflicts within his family 
       and community, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle 
       and survival in contemporary urban America--an exploration
       of the forces that shaped his life, his city, and the 
       lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his
       own path from drug dealer to published novelist, he gives 
       us a heartbreaking, fascinating, lovingly rendered view of
       the injustices and victories, large and small, that 
       defined his youth. --|camazon.com 
600 10 Jackson Mitchell S. 
650  0 African American men|zOregon|zPortland|vBiography. 
650  0 African American families|zOregon|zPortland|vBiography. 
650  0 Autobiography|xAfrican American authors. 
650  0 ocls african american bio 
655  4 Nonfiction. 
994    C0|bORL