Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America, by Leon Dash
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Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America’s black underclass. Rosa Lee’s life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing projects of Southeast Washington, a stone’s throw from the marble halls and civic monuments of the world’s most prosperous nation. Yet for all of America’s efforts, Rosa Lee and millions like her remain trapped in a cycle of poverty characterized by illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, drugs, and violent crime.Dash brings us into her life and the lives of her family members offering a human drama that statistics can only refer to. He also shows how some people—including two of Rosa Lee’s children—have made it out of the ghetto, breaking the cycle to lead stable middle-class lives in the mainstream of American society.
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Amazon.com Review Drug-addled, welfare-using and AIDS-infected, Rosa Lee--a black woman living in the slums of Washington, D.C.--shines an enormous amount of light on the seemingly intractable problems of the underclass by allowing Leon Dash to tell her story. You won't find any diagrams or number-crunching in this book, just an absorbing tale of inner-city despair. Dash won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles on Rosa Lee for the Washington Post. The book is even better--easily the best of its type since Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here.
From Library Journal Dash, a Washington Post reporter and author of When Children Want Children (Viking, 1990), has written a biography of someone we normally would never read about. His subject is a grandmother who has been on drugs a good portion of her life, been in and out of prison for drugs and theft, and on welfare much of this time. She had eight children, six of whom are following in her footsteps. She and several of her children have AIDS due to their drug habits, and six of them are functionally illiterate. Dash shows us how two of her children learned enough to achieve middle-class lives for themselves and escape the drugs and poverty in which the rest of the family is mired. He links Rosa Lee's story to sociological trends and historical reasons and points out that while she is unique, she also serves as an exemplar of many others with similar stories. Most interesting are the tidbits of information about the two successful sons, who both pointed out that they had received motivation and assistance from someone outside of their family, which they felt was what caused them to be different. Well written and researched, this is strongly recommended for all social work and social science collections.?Anita L. Cole, Miami-Dade P.L., Fla.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews A family caught in the maelstrom of the urban underclass made devastatingly human in an amplified version of a Pulitzer Prizewinning newspaper series. Washington Post staff writer Dash (When Children Want Children, 1988) had virtually no bylines from 1990 to 1994. Instead, he spent countless hours with Rosa Lee Cunningham and the many members of her family with whom she shared an addiction to drugs and crime. Interviews took place in the various jails to which one family member or another was consigned, in the North Carolina county where Rosa Lee's grandparents were sharecroppers before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1935, and in bedrooms while someone was shooting up. Dash accompanied Rosa Lee to methadone clinics, emergency rooms, funerals, and court hearings. The result is a glimpse into a strange and horrifying netherworld where poverty, illiteracy, and behavior destructive to self and society are passed on from one generation to the next. But what makes this book remarkable is that we come to know Rosa Lee as a human being, someone who could have been much more than the woman who died of AIDS in 1995 at age 59. Several of Rosa Lee's brothers and sisters and two of her eight children escaped the world of drugs and poverty, and Dash does not absolve Rosa Lee of blame for her many bad choices. Neither, however, does he absolve American society from its guilt for offering people like Rosa Lee, an illiterate black woman born into grinding poverty, so few options from which to choose. ``She was caught up in a tragedy for which . . . she was partially at fault, but, at the same time, one that was foreordained,'' he writes. Dash's epic achievement makes Rosa Lee's story understandable as an American tragedy. Rosa Lee's warm human face is a vital contribution to the public policy debates that almost universally reduce the urban underclass to grim statistics. ($50,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful. related By Tracy Williams Rosa Lee Cunningham was a relative of mine. Although I really did not know that much about her, it was still sad to read what she, my cousins(her children) went through in urban Washington,DC. I feel sad for my grandmother(Rosetta) as well because even though she moved from North Carolina to Washington, DC to get away from the abuse of white people and make a better life for herself, she suffered too. As an African-American woman, we are considered the low man on the totem pole. Black men think they have it bad to survive in society-no no! Black women such as my grandmother and my aunt Rosa Lee have carried the weight of America on our backs. Both my paternal and maternal grandmothers have endured so much growing up in the south. My maternal grandmother raised 13 children and had aspirations of becoming a teacher but let people including her husband who could not read. She and her children worked in the fields to make ends meet. My paternal grandmother however, raised her children often by herself but managed to sell dinner plates and own an ice cream truck when she was not cleaning houses for whites in Washington,DC. Listening to my family members tell their memories of my grandmothers has inspired me to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I can see my grandmothers and I cry from sadness as well as joy because of them, I am a strong black woman and I am raising my daughter to be one. AUNT ROSA LEE-R.I.P.! I LOVE YOU! AND THANKS TO MR. DASH FOR PROVIDING ME WITH FAMILY HISTORY TO HELP ME AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS TO BREAK THE CYCLE!!!!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Top notch reporting, writing, and descriptions great!!! By A Customer Leon Dash outdid himself on this writing. As an educator within the school system I have seen these families and the devastating affects that drugs and crime have on their lives. Dash cuts Rosa Lee no slack in telling her story, he does not seek to excuse her behavior by blaming a racist and oppressive society, nor does he condemn her for the hiddeous behavior she exhibits and has exhibited over the years. He simply tells her story with the bone chilling truth that must be told. The underclass in America has not just begun it has been hundreds of years in the making and Dash allows his readers to understand not only the past forces that helped create this class but the current forces as well. This is a powerful writing and should be required reading for every Urban Planning, Social Work, and Sociology major in this country. Excellent writing, five stars does not begin to give this book what it deserves.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. INNER CITY DRUG LIFE By Mary Allen The subject is depressing, but the research and writing are superb. ROSA LEE is a lengthy and well-chronicled look into the daily lives of one multi-generational family in an environment of poverty and drug-infestation, where routine crime and imprisonment are accepted as normal, and where escape is possible, but extremely rare. I'd recommend this book to anyone seeking to understand the mentality and hopelessness of drug addition. This story couldn't have been written any clearer than Leon Dash did in ROSA LEE.
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