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Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)

Rebecca Solnit
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Publication:
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018
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Summary:
"Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language with which we describe it. Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change."-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Electoral Catastrophes
  • Loneliness of Donald Trump
  • Coda (July 16, 2018)
  • Milestones in Misogyny
  • Twenty Million Missing Storytellers
  • II. American Emotions
  • Ideology of Isolation
  • Naive Cynicism
  • Facing the Furies
  • Preaching to the Choir
  • III. American Edges
  • Climate Change Is Violence
  • Blood on the Foundation
  • Death by Gentrification: The Killing of Alex Nieto and the Savaging of San Francisco
  • No Way In, No Way Out
  • Bird in a Cage: Visiting Jarvis Masters on Death Row
  • Coda: Case Dismissed
  • Monument Wars
  • Eight Million Ways to Belong
  • Light from Standing Rock
  • IV. Possibilities
  • Break the Story
  • Hope in Grief
  • In Praise of Indirect Consequences.
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Author/Creator:
Solnit, Rebecca , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Essays [of Solnit, R.] (Selections)
Subjects:
Social justice — United States
Social action — United States
Political culture — United States — History — 21st century
Social problems — United States — History — 21st century
United States — Social conditions — 21st century
United States — Politics and government — 2017-2021
General Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Call Numbers:
HM671 .S656 2018eb
ISBNs:
9781608469475 (electronic bk.)
1608469476 (electronic bk.)
9781608463299 [Invalid]
160846329X [Invalid]
9781608469468 [Invalid]
1608469468 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1048902741
Other Control Numbers:
EBC5346001 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15647192