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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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 and to stay alive in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. His was a neighborhood 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....