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Lädt ... We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boysvon Erin Kimmerle
   Books Read in 2023 (3,403) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) tami317 | Jan 3, 2024 |  This book was very interesting. It is amazing how hard it was just to get the okay to find these lost boys and return them to their families who loved them and missed them. History is very seldom full of nothing but good stuff, with every good thing there is always bad and a lot of ugly. The good is always the outcome of learning from the ugly stuff. Hopefully the ugly that this book exposed will teach us how to be good to the young people that end up in the custody of any state for whatever reason. My thoughts go to the boys, their families and the people who worked so hard to get them home. I enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the hard work it takes to bring home lost children. (  ) KrHammond | Dec 26, 2022 | This book was very interesting. It is amazing how hard it was just to get the okay to find these lost boys and return them to their families who loved them and missed them. History is very seldom full of nothing but good stuff, with every good thing there is always bad and a lot of ugly. The good is always the outcome of learning from the ugly stuff. Hopefully the ugly that this book exposed will teach us how to be good to the young people that end up in the custody of any state for whatever reason. My thoughts go to the boys, their families and the people who worked so hard to get them home. I enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the hard work it takes to bring home lost children. ( ) kskristine | Oct 7, 2022 | ) FormerEnglishTeacher | Jul 20, 2022 | Zeige 4 von 4
Gripping investigation into a corrupt, dangerous Florida reform school, the institution featured in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. Beginning in 1900, the Dozier School for Boys housed thousands of young men sentenced for presumed crimes, mostly minor infractions, who were at the mercy of their jailers and a Jim Crow system of injustice. Many died there, buried in forgotten graves....The Florida system has been dismantled—sort of, anyway, as “but one institution within a system structured to define people by color and class” that endures—but Kimmerle speaks eloquently to official crimes that have yet to be fully accounted for, giving a closely observed account of forensic investigation along the way. A horrific story of true crime, unjust punishment, and the quest for justice for the victims of a cruel state. Prestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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HTML: "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." ??Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School??the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize??winning novel The Nickel Boys??and the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families. The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school's management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the school's shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school's graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The school's poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school's property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle's work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncovering??one she continues to investigate to this day. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. It's also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their families??an endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legac Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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