With the help of the National Public Radio producer David Isay, they collected more than 100 hours of taped interviews and assembled this collagelike portrait of life in their neighborhood. This harrowing oral history, which grew out of a series of award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, was compiled by two teen-agers named LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, who were 13 when they began interviewing their friends, family members and neighbors in 1993. Life and Death on the South Side of Chicagoīy LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, with David IsayĬhildren in the Chicago projects, says one of the teen-age authors of ''Our America,'' are ''like M & M's - all hard on the outside and sweet on the inside.'' Tough, swaggering and ruthless on the outside, because ''if they see you're soft in the projects it's like a shark seeing blood,'' and on the inside, vulnerable, frightened, lost.
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