My Brother Moochie
My Brother Moochie A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey…
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My Brother Moochie
A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family suffering guilt and shame. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years.
What role did poverty, race, and faith play? Drawing on sociological research as well as his expertise as a journalist, he seeks to answer the crucial question of why Moochie and many other young black men--including half of the ten boys in his own family--end up in the criminal justice system. What effect did living in the South, in the Bible Belt, have?
And why is their experience understood as an acceptable trope for black men, while white people who commit crimes are never