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    My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
    My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
    My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
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    My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South

    Written by Issac J. Bailey

    Narrated by JD Jackson

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    A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.

    At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family suffering from guilt and shame. Drawing on sociological research as well as his expertise as a journalist, he seeks to answer the crucial question of why Moochie and many other young black men—including half of the ten boys in his own family—end up in the criminal justice system. What role do poverty, race, and faith play? What effect does living in the South, in the Bible Belt, have? And why is their experience understood as an acceptable trope for black men, while white people who commit crimes are never seen in this generalized way?

    My Brother Moochie provides a wide-ranging yet intensely intimate view of crime and incarceration in the United States, and the devastating effects on the incarcerated, their loved ones, their victims, and society as a whole. It also offers hope for families caught in the incarceration trap: though the Bailey family’s lows have included prison and bearing the responsibility for multiple deaths, their highs have included Harvard University, the White House, and a renewed sense of pride and understanding that presents a path forward.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9781543681598
    My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
    Author

    Issac J. Bailey

    Issac J. Bailey is an award-winning journalist and the James K. Batten Professor of Communication Studies at Davidson College. He has been published in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, Politico Magazine, TIME, The Guardian, and many more, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, and MSNBC. Bailey was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught journalism and applied ethics at Coastal Carolina University. He currently lives in Myrtle Beach with his wife and two children.

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