A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions

A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions
Elias Castillo (Author)

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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

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

For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison

For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison
by Liao Yiwu, Wenguang Huang

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In June 1989, news of the Tiananmen Square protests and its bloody resolution reverberated throughout the world. A young poet named Liao Yiwu, who had until then led an apolitical bohemian existence, found his voice in that moment. Like the solitary man who stood firmly in front of a line of tanks, Liao proclaimed his outrage—and his words would be his weapon.
 
For a Song and a Hundred Songs captures the four brutal years Liao spent in jail for writing the incendiary poem “Massacre.” Through the power and beauty of his prose, he reveals the bleak reality of crowded Chinese prisons—the harassment from guards and fellow prisoners, the torture, the conflicts among human beings in close confinement, and the boredom of everyday life. But even in his darkest hours, Liao manages to unearth the fundamental humanity in his cell mates: he writes of how they listen with rapt attention to each other’s stories of criminal endeavors gone wrong and of how one night, ravenous with hunger, they dream up an “imaginary feast,” with each inmate trying to one-up the next by describing a more elaborate dish.
 
In this important book, Liao presents a stark and devastating portrait of a nation in flux, exposing a side of China that outsiders rarely get to see. In the wake of 2011’s Arab Spring, the world has witnessed for a second time China’s crackdown on those citizens who would speak their mind, like artist Ai Weiwei and legal activist Chen Guangcheng. Liao stands squarely among them and gives voice to not only his own story, but to the stories of those individuals who can no longer speak for themselves. For a Song and a Hundred Songs bears witness to history and will forever change the way you view the rising superpower of China.

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• Published on: 2013-06-04
• Released on: 2013-06-04
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages