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Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
The Johns Hopkins University Press
November 2009
On Sale: October 21, 2009
232 pages
ISBN: 0801893631
EAN: 9780801893636
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Medical school taught John Rich how to deal with physical
trauma in a big city hospital but not with the disturbing
fact that young black men were daily shot, stabbed, and
beaten. This is Rich's account of his personal search to
find sense in the juxtaposition of his life and theirs. Young black men in cities are overwhelmingly the victims --
and perpetrators -- of violent crime in the United States.
Troubled by this tragedy -- and by his medical colleagues'
apparent numbness in the face of it -- Rich, a black man
who grew up in relative safety and comfort, reached out to
many of these young crime victims to learn why they lived
in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and how it
affected them. The stories they told him are unsettling --
and revealing about the reality of life in American cities. Mixing his own perspective with their seldom-heard voices,
Rich relates the stories of young black men whose lives
were violently disrupted -- and of their struggles to heal
and remain safe in an environment that both denied their
trauma and blamed them for their injuries. He tells us of
people such as Roy, a former drug dealer who fought to turn
his life around and found himself torn between the ease of
returning to the familiarity of life on the violent streets
of Boston and the tenuous promise of accepting a new, less
dangerous one. Rich's poignant portrait humanizes young black men and
illustrates the complexity of a situation that defies easy
answers and solutions.
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