- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The 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
- Acknowledgments
Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- Chapter:
- (p.25) 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- Source:
- The Rat That Got Away
- Author(s):
ALLEN JONES
Mark Naison
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
When one loses innocence, it rarely happens all at once. For Allen Jones it was a very gradual process, triggered by events and circumstances he saw around him, as well as by contradictions in his personality. Jones's story sheds light on what many black kids coming of age in the 1960s were facing, especially in New York City. They had a lot of opportunities their parents did not have, but some of those opportunities led to more trouble than happiness. Another warning sign that Jones's path to adolescence would not be a smooth one came in his religious life. In 1959, at age nine, he made his first communion and confirmation and ended up learning quite a bit about the Church and the Bible. However, he was also asked to leave St. Rita's School because the nuns could not handle his behavior. He was not only rebellious; he was very bad at hiding his rebellion.
Keywords: Allen Jones, black kids, New York City, adolescence, religious life, Church, Bible, St. Rita's School, rebellion
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The 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
- Acknowledgments
