Of all the distressing moments in Invisible Child, Andrea Elliotts book about Dasani Coates, the oldest of eight children growing up in a homeless shelter in New Jane Clayson Guest Host, Here & NowJane Clayson is Here & Now's guest host. And, you know, this was a new school. Like, "Why do I have to say, 'Isn't,' instead of, 'Ain't'?" In 2013, the story of a young girl named Dasani Coates took up five front pages in The New York Times. But because of the nature of how spread out Chicago was, the fact that this was not a moment of gentrification in the way that we think about it now, particularly in the, sort of, post-2000 comeback city era and then the post-financial crisis, that the kids in that story are not really cheek by jowl with all of the, kind of, wealth that is in Chicago. 6. Some girls may be kind enough to keep Dasanis secret. She's been through this a little bit before, right, with the series. All she has to do is climb the school steps. I had not ever written a book. 'Invisible Child' tells the story of childhood homelessness If she cries, others answer. It's on the west side just west of downtown. Note: This is a rough transcript please excuse any typos. with me, your host, Chris Hayes. Her husband also had a drug history. Multiply her story by thousands of children in cities across the U.S. living through the same experiences and the country confronts a crisis. (BACKGROUND MUSIC) It is an incredible feat of reporting and writing. And she talked about them brutally. And it's the richest private school in America. Elliott first met Dasani, her parents and her siblings in Brooklyns Fort Greene neighborhood in 2012. To kill a mouse is to score a triumph. And so I also will say that people would look at Dasani's family from the outside, her parents, and they might write them off as, you know, folks with a criminal record. Invisible Child: the Life of a Homeless Family in NYC Clothing donations. She saw this ad in a glossy magazine while she was, I believe, at a medical clinic. The turtle they had snuck into the shelter. But at that time, just like it was at the time that There Are No Children Here came out, it's the highest child poverty rate of almost any wealthy nation. It's, sort of, prismatic because, as you're talking about the separation of a nation in terms of its level of material comfort or discomfort, right, or material want, there's a million different stories to tell of what that looks like. Right? There definitely are upsides. It's something that I have wrestled with from the very beginning and continue to throughout. And I think that that's what Dasani's story forces us to do is to understand why versus how. Dasani And the translator would translate and was actually showing this fly. And one thing I found really interesting about your introduction, which so summarizes the reason I feel that this story matters, is this fracturing of America. And I think that that's also what she would say. She's a hilarious (LAUGH) person. And it really was for that clientele, I believe. Now in her 20s, Dasani became the first in her immediate family to graduate high school, and she enrolled in classes at LaGuardia Community College. And that carries a huge ethical quandary because you don't know, "Will they come to regret this later on?" I focused on doing projects, long form narrative pieces that required a lot of time and patience on the part of my editors and a lot of swinging for the fences in terms of you don't ever know how a story is going to pan out. It's unpredictable. Still, the baby howls. She is 20 years old. She was the second oldest, but technically, as far as they were all concerned, she was the boss of the siblings and a third parent, in a sense. I don't want to really say what Dasani's reaction is for her. And it also made her indispensable to her parents, which this was a real tension from the very beginning. She sorts them like laundry. This is an extract And I did some quick research and I saw that, in fact, the child poverty rate remained one in five. I think that you're absolutely right that the difference isn't in behavior. I read the book out to the girls. She calls him Daddy. Dasani feels her way across the room that she calls the house a 520 sq ft space containing her family and all their possessions. And just exposure to diversity is great for anyone. And they were things that I talked about with the family a lot. Chris Hayes: So she's back in the city. She doesn't want to have to leave. is presented by MSNBC and NBC News, produced by the All In team and features music by Eddie Cooper. Over the next year, 911 dispatchers will take some 350 calls from Auburn, logging 24 reports of assault, four reports of child abuse, and one report of rape. They have learned to sleep through anything. Sometimes she doesnt have to blink. The people I grew up with. A stunning debut, the book covers eight formative years in the life of an intelligent and imaginative young girl in a Brooklyn homeless shelter as she balances poverty, family, and opportunity. dasani And I had focused for years on the story of Islam in a post-9/11 America. Thats what Invisible Child is about, Elliott says, the tension between what is and what was for Dasani, whose life is remarkable, compelling and horrifying in many ways. She could even tell the difference between a cry for hunger and a cry for sleep. Nearly a year ago, the citys child protection agency had separated 34-year-old Chanel Sykes from her children after she got addicted to opioids. Well, if you know the poor, you know that they're working all the time. And at the same time, what if these kids ten years from now regret it? But you know what a movie is. Her sense of home has always been so profound even though she's homeless. In this extract from her new book, Invisible Child, we meet Dasani Coates in 2012, aged 11 and living in a shelter, Read an interview with Andrea Elliott here. There have been a few huge massive interventions that have really altered the picture of what poverty looks like in the U.S., chiefly the Great Society and the New Deal and some other things that have happened since then. They felt that they had a better handle on my process by then. And I hope that she'll continue to feel that way. It has more than a $17 billion endowment. They will drop to the floor in silence. Andrea Elliott: This is a work in progress. Life has been anything but easy for 20-year-old Dasani Coates. Dasanis room was where they put the crazies, she says, citing as proof the broken intercom on the wall. The west side of Chicago is predominantly Black and Latino and very poor. I do, though. Family wasn't an accident. She would change her diaper. Dasanis story, which ran on the front page in late 2013, became totemic in a moment of electoral flux in New York after the election of Democrat Bill de Blasio as mayor on a Each home at the school, they hire couples who are married who already have children to come be the house parents. She felt that the streets became her family because she had such a rocky childhood. But she saw an ad for Chanel perfume. Others will be distracted by the noise of this first day the start of the sixth grade, the crisp uniforms, the fresh nails. asani ticks through their faces, the girls from the projects who know where she lives. Like, these two things that I think we tend to associate with poverty and, particularly, homelessness, which is mental illness and substance abuse, which I think get--, Chris Hayes: --very much, particularly in the way that in an urban environment, get codified in your head of, like, people who were out and, you know, they're dealing with those two issues and this is concentrated. She will focus in class and mind her manners in the schoolyard. Back then, from the ghettos isolated corners, a perfume ad seemed like the portal to a better place. It doesn't have to be a roof over my head. They just don't have a steady roof over their head. Like, she was wearing Uggs at one point and a Patagonia fleece at another point. (LAUGH) Like those kinds of, like, cheap colognes. The other thing you asked about were the major turning points. It was this aspiration that was, like, so much a part of her character. Now the bottle must be heated. Mice scurry across the floor. Chris Hayes: That is such a profound point about the structure of American life and the aspirations for it. Author Andrea Elliott followed Dasani and her family for nearly 10 years, No. The oldest of eight kids, Dasani and her family lived in one room in a dilapidated, city-run homeless shelter in Brooklyn. How did you feel, you know, about the pipe that's leaking?" What is that?" Yeah. She's just a visitor. Some girls may be kind enough to keep Dasanis secret. Massive gentrification occurs in this first decade. Dasani squints to check the date. She would wake up. So there were more than 22,000 children in homeless shelters at that time in the main system. She could go anywhere. A little sink drips and drips, sprouting mould from a rusted pipe. Yes. There were evictions. Invisible Child In 2019, when the school bell rang at the end of the day, more than 100,000 schoolchildren in New York City had no permanent home to return to. She was invited to be a part of Bill de Blasio's inaugural ceremony. We rarely look at all the children who don't, who are just as capable. It's something that I talked about a lot with Supreme and Chanel. Eleven-year-old Dasani Joanie-Lashawn Coates is a primary caregiver for her seven siblings. Invisible Child emerged from a series on poverty Elliott wrote for the New York Times in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The journalist will never forget the first time she saw the family unit traveling in a single file line, with mother Chanel Sykes leading the way as she pushed a stroller. So in There Are No Children Here, you know, if you go over there to the Henry Horner Homes on the west side, you do have the United Center. Invisible Child And they did attend rehab at times. She made leaps ahead in math. This was and continues to be their entire way of being, their whole reason. Elliott says those are the types of stories society tends to glorify because it allows us to say, if you work hard enough, if you are gifted enough, then you can beat this.. Theres nothing to be scared about.. And at that time, I just had my second child and I was on leave at home in Washington, D.C. where I had grown up. Invisible Child Andrea Elliott Hidden in a box is Dasanis pet turtle, kept alive with bits of baloney and the occasional Dorito. When braces are the stuff of fantasy, straight teeth are a lottery win. This book is filled with twists and turns, as is her story. Nearly a quarter of Dasanis childhood has unfolded at Auburn, where she shares a 520-square-foot room with her parents and Chris Hayes: Yeah. Elliott says she was immediately drawn to 11-year-old Dasani not only because of the girls ability to articulate injustices in her life, but how Desani held so much promise for herself. But the other part is agency. Elliotts book follows eight years in the life of I feel accepted.". Invisible Child Invisible Child WebA work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott's Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. She had been born in March, shattering the air with her cries. And what really got me interested, I think, in shifting gears was in the end of 2011, Occupy Wall Street happened.
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