Cuz

By Danielle S. Allen

Subjects: Biography, Criminal justice, administration of, Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States, Juvenile delinquents, African americans, biography, Allen, Danielle S., 1971-, Administration of Criminal justice, African American young men -- Biography, African American juvenile delinquents, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States, African american men, African American young men, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, African American families, New York Times reviewed, Allen, Michael Alexander, -2009, African american families, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Social conditions, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, African American young men -- Social conditions -- 21st century, African americans, social conditions

Description: "In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?"--Dust flap