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We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys (edizione 2022)

di Erin Kimmerle (Autore)

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History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML: "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." �??Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School�??the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize�??winning novel The Nickel Boys�??and the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families. The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school's management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the school's shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school's graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The school's poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school's property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle's work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncovering�??one she continues to investigate to this day. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. It's also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their families�??an endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legac… (altro)

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Titolo:	We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Autori:	Erin Kimmerle (Autore)
Info:	William Morrow (2022), 320 pages
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Another sad mark in US history. The Dozier School for Boys was a place where alleged juvenile delinquents were sent to reform. However, reform was not what the school was about. It was about abuse, torture, cover ups, and slavery. Though black children were the most prevalent "students" there, white children were also in residence. Most of the children that died at the hands of schoolmasters were buried in unmarked graves on the site. Erin Kimmerle, an anthropologist who specializes in forensics, made it her mission to send these children home to their families. A task that was not easy due to inaccurate and/or missing data and the difficult job of finding the graves. This was highly informational and emotional. I would recommend it. (

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tami317 | Jan 3, 2024 |

I received this book from a Goodreads Giveaway

This book was very interesting. It is amazing how hard it was just to get the okay to find these lost boys and return them to their families who loved them and missed them. History is very seldom full of nothing but good stuff, with every good thing there is always bad and a lot of ugly. The good is always the outcome of learning from the ugly stuff. Hopefully the ugly that this book exposed will teach us how to be good to the young people that end up in the custody of any state for whatever reason. My thoughts go to the boys, their families and the people who worked so hard to get them home.
I enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the hard work it takes to bring home lost children. (

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KrHammond | Dec 26, 2022 |

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kskristine | Oct 7, 2022 |

This incredible story documents in a most amazing way the horror that was the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The school operated from Jan. 1, 1900 until June 30, 2011, During that time scores of boys, some as young as five, were tortured and some killed. Their offenses for being sent to the school could be as minor as smoking and truancy. The author, Erin Kimmerle, is a forensic anthropologist from the University of South Florida. It was her meticulous work, along with her graduate students’ and others’, that uncovered many of the long forgotten remains of the boys, Black and white, who were buried on the grounds of the school campus. Many of the local residents not only did not support Kimmerle’s work, many were openly hostile, wanting to continue to sweep the school’s history and the community’s complicity under the rug, much like German citizens of World War II with the Nazis atrocities. This is an important book, one that everyone should read. It is a nonfiction account of what Colson Whitehead revealed in his best selling novel “The Nickel Boys.” One mention about some of the negative reviews here: many of the reviewers seem to be bothered by the amount of personal information about the author included in the book. I found this information interesting and helpful in understanding her role in the story and her dedication to the project. I wonder if some of these were written by disgruntled members of the Marianna, Florida, community. (

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Gripping investigation into a corrupt, dangerous Florida reform school, the institution featured in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. Beginning in 1900, the Dozier School for Boys housed thousands of young men sentenced for presumed crimes, mostly minor infractions, who were at the mercy of their jailers and a Jim Crow system of injustice. Many died there, buried in forgotten graves....The Florida system has been dismantled—sort of, anyway, as “but one institution within a system structured to define people by color and class” that endures—but Kimmerle speaks eloquently to official crimes that have yet to be fully accounted for, giving a closely observed account of forensic investigation along the way. A horrific story of true crime, unjust punishment, and the quest for justice for the victims of a cruel state.

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Know you what it is to be a child?
It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for every child has its fairy godmother in its soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space, it is
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Before the lawsuits and protests, before the ground-penetrating radar and DNA testing, before we were stalked and before the citizens of Jackson County tried to have me arrested, before we ever stuck a shovel in the red dirt of North Florida to exhume bodies, I stood in the women's restroom as the news media gathered in the large room outside and began setting up their cameras and checking their microphones and waiting for me to step before them and tell them what we learned about the dead boys. -Chapter 1, Opening the Earth

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History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:

"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." �??Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School�??the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize�??winning novel The Nickel Boys�??and the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.

The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school's management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions.

In the wake of the school's shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school's graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The school's poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school's property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle's work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncovering�??one she continues to investigate to this day.

We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. It's also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their families�??an endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legac

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