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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Islan
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Publisher
Center Street
ISBN-10
1455570915
ISBN-13
9781455570911
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228941461
Product Key Features
Book Title
All Day : a Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Urban, Sociology / Urban, Criminology
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Social Science, Education
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Trade
LCCN
2016-054174
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There are those who remember, even as they walk new paths, that in the best traditions of our master teachers here and gone, language must be a loving pro-creator. It must give life, breath, form and meaning to a world in need of a tangible peace, a known beauty, a hope beyond slogan. For more than 20 years I have had the opportunity to listen to, learn from and be by elevated by such a keeper of memory, such a carrier of light and possibility. Liza Jesse Peterson is a free woman and in her work, as you will find in this book, she speaks the recipe of all of our freedom into existence. And magnificently so! -- Asha Bandele, author of The Prisoner's Wife, All Day takes your breath even as it makes your heart beat faster with tension, fear, desperation and outrage. Liza Jessie Peterson's writing is magical, poetic and haunting. Her words force us to live as she lived - as teacher/artist/warrior fighting with all of her talent and power to help incarcerated youth escape the cycle of poverty, pain and oppression to stay "alive and free." Her lessons of liberation to her students become personal revelations that can help us move toward personal liberation.-- Jamal Joseph, former Rikers Island Inmate and Rikers High School student, professor at Columbia University, activist, author, filmmaker, Academy Award nominee, In a very real voice Liza Jessie Peterson recounts her days teaching young men imprisoned on Rikers Island awaiting trial. She switches between her street wise motherly voice to the voices and inner thoughts of young men struggling to maintain identity, dignity, credibility and sanity. Her interactions with them and them with each other are both heart wrenching and chilling at the same time. She peels back layer upon layer of these kid's reality and exposes the humanity and vulnerability of young men who are scared, beautiful and dangerous. As an educator and quite often a mother fiqure she steps inside their comfort zone and often brings out the very best these kids have to offer. The book is in many ways a teacher's quide of how to gain the trust and respect of kids who often see themselves as societies throwaways. Liza educates with a stern and loving hand and often brings about a meaningful change in these kids but also finds insights into herself about how to truly make a difference in the lives of children lost in the matrix. -- Danny Simmons, artist, poet, executive producer of Def Poetry Jam, This remarkable work of witness, testimony and empathy by Liza Jessie Peterson is a literary gift which could not be more precipitous. We seem to be reminded near weekly now of how disposable and hated young black men are by powerful sectors of this society. Peterson challenges us to see and feel beyond dangerous tabloid stereotypes. This feat she accomplishes with exquisitely flowing, pungent prose. All Day details Peterson's years as a teacher of incarcerated youth inside New York City's notoriously dehumanizing Riker's Island Correctional Facility. Armed with only her wit, grace, smarts and commitment to redemption, Peterson enlightens her charges and finds herself being schooled and uplifted too. Her rapscallion pupil's rowdy humor and rawboned intellect are lyrically peeled away to reveal underestimated talents for self-revelation, comedic invention and survival. All Day is a generous bouquet of hip, laconic storytelling informed by big-sisterly-love and a compulsion for social justice. -- Greg Tate, author, journalist, critic, and musician
Synopsis
Eighteen years ago, performance artist Liza Jessie Peterson never thought that her day of substitute teaching at Rikers Island C-74 would change the course of her life, but it did. It ignited a lifelong passion--which continues in her work with incarcerated kids today--to make a difference in the lives of youth in trouble. Her powerful narrative captures the essence, humor, intellect, creativity and psychology of children in the penal system. She intimately introduces readers to her students. We see them, smell their musk, feel their attitudes, hear their voices and learn how they came to be jailed--residents of "the island." Everyone in the classroom grows-including the teacher-in this must-read memoir for anyone who cares about children and education. Peterson's perspective and insights will make any teacher a better teacher. This book will encourage and empower anyone committed to social justice., ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing . Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths. For the first time faced with full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates, "Ms. P" comes to understand the essence of her predominantly Black and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them, but to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives. "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson discovers. "Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is like running boot camp for hyperactive gremlins. I have to be consistent, alert, firm, witty, fearless, and demanding, and most important, I have to have strong command of the subject I'm teaching." Discipline is always a challenge, with the students spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off the walls with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns quickly that she must keep the upper hand-set the rules and enforce them with rigor, even when her sympathetic heart starts to waver. Despite their relentless bravura and antics-and in part because of it-Peterson becomes a fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill the young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their history and culture: from their African roots to Langston Hughes and Malcolm X. She encourages them to explore and express their true feelings by writing their own poems and essays. When the boys push her buttons (on an almost daily basis) she pushes back, demanding that they meet not only her expectations or the standards of the curriculum, but set expectations for themselves-something most of them have never before been asked to do. She witnesses some amazing successes as some of the boys come into their own under her tutelage. Peterson vividly captures the prison milieu and the exuberance of the kids who have been handed a raw deal by society and have become lost within the system. Her time in the classroom teaches her something, too-that these boys want to be rescued. They want normalcy and love and opportunity.
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