LEADER 05429nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910780966803321 005 20230120055647.0 010 $a0-8232-4702-3 010 $a0-8232-4082-7 010 $a0-8232-3104-6 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008109 035 $a(MH)012075258-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311201 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429932 035 $a(PQKB)11734500 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035316 035 $a(OCoLC)647876528 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239497 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365117 035 $a(OCoLC)923763424 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476627 035 $a(OCoLC)936300985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30251548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30251548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476627 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008109 100 $a20090406d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rat that got away$b[electronic resource] $ea Bronx memoir /$fAllen Jones with Mark Naison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 193 p., [7] p. of plates )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3103-8 311 $a0-8232-3102-X 327 $aIntroduction / 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAfrican American young men$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aPublic housing$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDrug dealers$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aPreparatory school students$zMassachusetts$zGreat Barrington (Town)$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American basketball players$zEurope$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$zLuxembourg$vBiography 607 $aBronx (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography 607 $aBronx (New York, N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American young men 615 0$aPublic housing$xHistory 615 0$aDrug dealers 615 0$aPreparatory school students 615 0$aAfrican American basketball players 615 0$aAfrican Americans 676 $a974.7/275043092 700 $aJones$b Allen$f1950-$01501428 701 $aNaison$b Mark$f1946-$01501429 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780966803321 996 $aThe rat that got away$93728546 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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