Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary

Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary
Dennis Childs (Author)

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The Conscience of the Institution

The Conscience of the Institution
Helen M. Alvare (Editor)

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Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups

Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups
Betsy Leondar-Wright (Author)
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Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.

The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile.

Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice.

• Rank: #37665 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .69" h x 6.33" w x 9.22" l, .86 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Professor Alexander Laban Hinton (Editor, Contributor), Thomas La Pointe (Editor), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Editor), A. Dirk Moses (Contributor), Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Contributor), Daniel Feierstein (Contributor), Donna-Lee Frieze (Contributor), Mato Nunpa (Contributor), Walter Richmond (Contributor), Adam Jones (Contributor), Hannibal Travis (Contributor), Krista Hegburg (Contributor)

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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

• Rank: #135889 in Books
• Published on: 2013-12-18
• Released on: 2013-11-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick (Author)
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A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
 
Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them.

• Rank: #2737 in Books
• Published on: 2010-09-21
• Released on: 2010-09-21
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.51" w x .72" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

• Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Do Muslim Women Need Saving

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod (Author)

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Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights.

In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism--conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West--are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives.

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam--as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

• Rank: #113909 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-12
• Released on: 2013-10-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 280 pages