The Levitt Center for Public Affairs presents Alex Kotlowitz's lecture "The Things They Carry: Growing Up Poor in The World's Richest Nation" on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Kotlowitz is a journalist, visiting professor at Northwestern University, and author of two well-known books that have become public commentaries on public housing projects and community environments as factors in race relations, developmental trajectories for children, and in degrees of support for families.
His first book, the best-selling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America was published in 1992. The New York Times said that There Are No Children Here "informs the heart," and Amazon.com said that the book "brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project." His follow-up book, The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America's Dilemma, explores America's racial divide.
