CONVICTED IN WOMB(ISBN=) 英文原版

Being black is an inheritance. Being a nigger is a state of
mind. Born in a roach-infested tenement in South Philadelphia, on
the streets by age four, a gang member by age nine, and in reform
school by age twelve, Carl Upchurch’s life epitomized the tragedy
of inner-city America. Incarcerated for the sixth time, he was
confined to solitary with only a table and chair for company.
Propping up the leg of one table was a book, which, out of sheer
boredom, he picked up and read: Shakespeare’s Sonnets. So began his
transformation from a hopeless hoodlum, lacking respect for
himself, for others, for human life in general, to a self-educated
advocate for urban peace and justice.
Convicted in the Womb is the story of how Carl Upchurch overcame
his abject youth to become a radical civil rights activist,
culminating in his organizing the first Gang Summit for Urban Peace
and Justice in Kansas City. It is also an urgent call for change.
Outspoken in his criticism of Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, and other
icons of the established civil rights movement., Upchurch argues
that it’s time for a new generation of leaders, drawn from the
masses, not the elite. He also outlines a grassroots New Black
Power Paradigm to overcome America’s political, economic, and
athletic apartheid.

This is not another sad personal litany of crime, drugs,
violence and misery in the ‘hood.’  This is an inspiring
personal litany of human renewal and
accomplishment.  Upchurch gives us hope that we can
change society.
— Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson author of The Assassination of the
Black Male Image

” Convicted in the Womb by Carl Upchurch was a painful book
for me to read, but I know what he says is fact for too many
America’s children.  It should be read by every
individual who has ever doubted the value and importance of early
childhood education, cares about children and the future of our
society.”
— Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Arkansas Children’s Hospital

“A provocative memoir of life as an enemy of society–Upchurch has
become a thinker and social critic well worth paying attention
to.”
–Kirkus Reviews — Review