05429nam 2200817Ia 450 991078096680332120230120055647.00-8232-4702-30-8232-4082-70-8232-3104-6(CKB)2520000000008109(MH)012075258-1(SSID)ssj0000486904(PQKBManifestationID)11311201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486904(PQKBWorkID)10429932(PQKB)11734500(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035316(OCoLC)647876528(MdBmJHUP)muse14920(Au-PeEL)EBL3239497(CaPaEBR)ebr10365117(OCoLC)923763424(Au-PeEL)EBL476627(OCoLC)936300985(MiAaPQ)EBC3239497(MiAaPQ)EBC30251548(Au-PeEL)EBL30251548(MiAaPQ)EBC476627(EXLCZ)99252000000000810920090406d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe rat that got away[electronic resource] a Bronx memoir /Allen Jones with Mark Naison1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20091 online resource (xvi, 193 p., [7] p. of plates )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-3103-8 0-8232-3102-X Introduction / Mark Naison -- 1. Bronx Beginnings -- 2. Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage -- 3. Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family -- 4. Love of God and the Lure of the Streets -- 5. The South Bronx by Day and Night -- 6. Lost and Found: Welcome to the '60s -- 7. The Rules of the Game -- 8. The Lessons of Sex -- 9. Gains and Losses -- 10. 1963 and Me -- 11. What Women Want -- 12. The Summer of Unrest: 1964 -- 13. The Streets Are Alive: Summer of '65 -- 14. Hustle and Heart, on and off Court -- 15. Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin -- 16. Welcome to Hell -- 17. Shifting Loyalties -- 18. The Road to The Tombs -- 19. Do the Crime, Do the Time -- 20. Judgment Day -- 21. Free at Last! Free at Last ... -- 22. Cornwall Academy -- 23. Summer Schooling -- 24. Going to College -- 25. College: Round II -- 26. Passage to Europe -- 27. Homecoming -- 28. The Year of the French -- 29. A New Life in Luxembourg -- 30. Finding My Groove -- 31. Standing on Higher Ground.The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time--the 1950s--when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. A brilliant storyteller with a gift for dialogue, Jones brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents. A book that will change the way people view the South Bronx.African American young menNew York (State)New YorkBiographyPublic housingNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryDrug dealersNew York (State)New YorkBiographyPreparatory school studentsMassachusettsGreat Barrington (Town)BiographyAfrican American basketball playersEuropeBiographyAfrican AmericansLuxembourgBiographyBronx (New York, N.Y.)BiographyNew York (N.Y.)BiographyBronx (New York, N.Y.)Social life and customs20th centuryAfrican American young menPublic housingHistoryDrug dealersPreparatory school studentsAfrican American basketball playersAfrican Americans974.7/275043092Jones Allen1950-1501428Naison Mark1946-1501429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780966803321The rat that got away3728546UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress