How Long to Read Central City's Joy and Pain

How Long Does it Take to Read Central City's Joy and Pain?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read Central City's Joy and Pain by Jerome E. Morris

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With Central City’s Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-housing residents’ experiences. As Morris’s experiential and authoritative narrative voice unfolds in the pages of Central City’s Joy and Pain, both the scholarly and lay reader are brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center. The setting of a historic public-housing community provides a rich canvas on which to paint a world through the author’s personal experience of growing up there—and his later observations as a researcher and academic. Through its syncopation of personal stories and scholarly research, Central City's Joy and Pain captures what it means to be Black, poor, and full of dreams. In this setting, dreams are realized by some and swallowed up for others in the larger historical, social, economic, and political context of African Americans' experiences during and after the civil rights movement.

How long is Central City's Joy and Pain?

Central City's Joy and Pain by Jerome E. Morris is 374 pages long, and a total of 94,996 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Central City's Joy and Pain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 39 minutes to read Central City's Joy and Pain aloud.

What Reading Level is Central City's Joy and Pain?

Central City's Joy and Pain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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