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56493600 |
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MiTN |
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20190729105403.0 |
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040907s2005 nyu 000 0aeng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2004020999 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1582345864 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781582345864 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781582345895 (pbk :rebound) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1582345899 (pbk :rebound) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
MiTN |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us-ny |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
F128.68 .B8 |
| Item number |
C48 2005 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Childers, Mary, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1952- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Welfare brat : |
| Remainder of title |
a memoir / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Mary Childers. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st U.S. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloomsbury Pub. : |
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Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vi, 263 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Cherry pie -- Sleepwalking toward the horizon -- Pants and jackets -- Triumph and shame -- Coney Island -- Moving -- Miracles -- Shakespeare -- Fresh air fund -- Huddled couples -- Birthdays -- A new apartment -- The watch -- Grand concourse -- Belonging -- Thigh gliding -- Lessons -- Carnival secrets -- Malcolm X and the Scarlet A -- Mace -- Summer camp -- Mother's helper -- Serendipity -- Ed Sullivan -- Advice -- Rumors and riots -- School strikes -- Sex and the Inner City -- Envelopes -- Dead man's float -- Rapprochement -- Country music, 1982. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
An intimate and frank look at poverty, abuse, and welfare dependence by a "welfare brat" who came of age in the blighted Bronx of the 1960s. Mary Childers grew up in a neighborhood ravaged by poverty. Once a borough of elegant apartment buildings, parks, and universities, the Bronx had become a national symbol of urban decay. White flight, arson, rampant crime, and race riots provide the backdrop for Mary's story. The child of an absent carny father for whom she longed and a single welfare mother who schemed and struggled to house and feed her brood, Mary was the third of her mother's surviving seven children, who were fathered by four different men. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
From an early age, Mary knew she was different. She loved her family fiercely but didn't want to repeat her mother's or older sisters' mistakes. The Childers family culture was infused with alcohol and drugs, and relations between the sexes were muddled by simultaneous feelings of rage and desire toward men. Fatherless children were the norm. Academic achievement and hard work were often scorned, not rewarded; five of the seven Childers children dropped out of high school. But Mary was determined to create a better life, and here she recounts her bumpy road to self-sufficiency. With this engaging and thoughtful examination of her difficult early years, Mary Childers breathes messy life into the issues of poverty and welfare dependence, childhood resilience, the American work ethic, and a popular culture that values sexuality more than self-esteem. |
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| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Childers, Mary, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1952- |
| General subdivision |
Childhood and youth. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Childers, Mary, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1952- |
| General subdivision |
Family. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Women, White |
| Geographic subdivision |
New York (State) |
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New York |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Welfare recipients |
| Geographic subdivision |
New York (State) |
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New York |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Poor |
| Geographic subdivision |
New York (State) |
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New York |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Inner cities |
| Geographic subdivision |
New York (State) |
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New York. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
New York (N.Y.) |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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| Geographic name |
New York (N.Y.) |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u375979 |
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26741 |