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PDF EPUB} Another Day in the Death of America a Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge – Review Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge – review. O n the cover of Gary Younge’s new book, Another Day in the Death of America , there’s a full frontal of a smiling white American family. It’s a portrait of a 1950s American dream that stands in brilliant contrast to the reality of the country that is revealed beyond this cover. Take the story of 16-year-old African American Samuel Brightmon, who lived in Dallas. Having spent the evening at home with his family and a friend playing Uno (and cheating, “though not as egregiously as usual”), he offered to walk his friend part of the way home. When they passed a car with its headlights off but brake lights on they remarked on it but kept going. Not for long, however: a shot rang out, killing Samuel. “One minute we’re playing Uno,” his friend reflected, “10, 15 minutes later – boom.” Samuel’s wake was held on 29 November, the day he would have turned 17. No one has been charged with his murder: the working assumption being that this was just another case of mistaken identity. Samuel is one of the 10 people known to have been killed by guns on 23 November 2013. That’s the day Guardian journalist Gary Younge randomly selected for this book, after which he spent 18 months unearthing the stories that lay behind these young lives and their premature deaths. It is a gripping account that leads the reader through places as disparate as the vast corn and soya fields of Michigan and the killing fields of Chicago, where gunfire is now so common that dogs are said to have stopped barking at it. It’s a journey through a deeply troubled America that will make its reader want to join the author in howling at the moon. Ten young lives: 10 deaths from guns. But Another Day in the Death of America is not a book about gun control: it’s a book about what has happened in a country where there is no gun control. And although all the victims were at the beginning of their lives, this is not a book about innocents gunned down. It is, instead, a gripping account of the conditions that turn so many of America’s powerless into victims. There are stories to make the reader weep. Like those of nine-year-old Jaiden Dixon and 11-year-old Tyler Dunn, who had two things in common: the first that they both loved US reality TV show Duck Dynasty ; the second that they were both shot by people they knew – in Jaiden’s case, by his mother’s ex- boyfriend; in Tyler’s case, mistakenly, by his best friend. And there are other stories of those apparently less innocent – those who themselves may have killed, before in turn becoming victims. It’s easy to mourn lives cut down prematurely but what makes this book stand out is the strength of its analysis. Younge counters our understandable reaction to feel more deeply for “innocents” or “angels” by examining the structural roots of a crisis that has resulted in such everyday killings. He nails a succession of myths (or as he calls it, “frisks the straw men”): that, for example, America is a meritocracy, or that the current crisis resides in the failure of African American families (of the 10 deaths, seven were black, two Hispanic and one white) to discipline their children, or that talking about crime (which he forensically examines) is a taboo subject among African Americans. In his 2015 book, Between the World and Me , Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son about the danger to black bodies in America, and about the sting of his own father’s leather belt, which was the result of his fear of what might befall his son in the face of such dangers. This is a world that Younge also explores as he writes of the “cocoon world” in which black parents try to wrap their children in the hope of keeping them safe. And yet in the impoverished communities where most of these victims exist, Younge shows how this effort is often fruitless. One of the many strengths of his book is the sensitivity with which he approaches the families, thus allowing them to share their lived experiences with the reader. And what they share is heart-rending. Take, for example, Regina, mother of 18-year-old Tyshon Anderson, killed in a gang- related incident. “I hate the fact that he’s gone,” she says. “But I look at it like now I don’t have to worry about him being out there killing nobody else or nobody else trying to kill him. It was sad to see him laying there. But I’m just glad it’s over, because now every day I have to live is a day when they’re not going to kill him.” Another Day in the Death of America : A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge (2018, Trade Paperback) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет. См. подробные сведения с дополнительным описанием товара. Book Review: Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge. On an average day in the USA, seven children and teenagers will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives , journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of ten lives lost on one single day: 23 November 2013. This is a powerful, timely and important contribution to the debate on US gun culture and how US society particularly treats its African American citizens, writes Peter Carrol . Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives . Gary Younge. Faber Publishing. 2016. Gary Younge’s powerful indictment of America’s gun culture. Find this book: To many outsider observers, America’s gun culture and its associated death toll is viewed with a mixture of confusion and bafflement. How can an advanced, sophisticated nation tolerate such daily carnage without taking action? This is the premise of Gary Younge’s book, Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives , which features ten chapters reporting ten gun deaths that occurred on Saturday 23 November 2013. Younge is an experienced journalist who has reported on America for the Guardian for over a decade, and has written eloquently about his experiences of racism as a black British man living in and working in the USA. This book aims to bring his perspective as an ‘anthropological alien’ to provide an objective account of America’s gun culture; but as the deaths and injuries disproportionately affect America’s black population, Younge, father of two young children and long-term resident in inner-city Chicago, admits that he has a personal stake in the issue or, as he puts it, ‘black skin in a game where the odds are stacked against it’. The stories of the ten victims are told through their friends, families and through media and police reports, detailing the known circumstances of their deaths. Eight of the ten victims were African American, while all of them were under twenty: figures chosen to reflect the diversity of the average number of children killed by guns each day in America by other Americans. The November date was selected at random. Two of the victims were killed accidentally by their friends. Three appear to be implicated in gang violence and victims of reprisal shootings. Two victims appear to have been killed by stray bullets as they walked the streets. What unites them all is that their lives ended in an environment where access to guns is easy, and that they were citizens in a society that is unwilling, or unable, to do anything about it. Younge powerfully describes a world of disadvantage, street gangs warring over the drug trade and the everyday existence of young lives in the mostly poor towns and cities in which the killings took place. Some of the children’s parents are doing their best with the odds stacked firmly against them, while others are neglectful and largely absent, their lives destroyed by addiction and poverty. But Younge does not offer judgement on the children’s backgrounds, making clear that the tragedy of gun violence can randomly strike any person at any time in these environments: in this sense, all of the victims are innocent. Image Credit: Houston Gun show at the George R. Brown Convention Center (CC BY 2.0) Younge emphasises that this book is the first significant attention these victims have received beyond their immediate friends and family. The question that Younge poses several times is whether America would tolerate these deaths if they occurred in the areas and communities where the wealthy professional classes live. The societal response to the Sandy Hook shooting, where twenty school children and six adults were killed in their classrooms in a Connecticut school, is compared unfavourably with the relative invisibility of these deaths. But the fact that there was no legislative change to restrict gun access following the events at Sandy Hook, Younge reflects, makes the daily deaths that take place in America’s poor communities even less likely to draw a substantive response.
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