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Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays) / Rebecca Solnit.

Solnit, Rebecca, author.
2018
HN59.2 .S663 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays) / Rebecca Solnit.
Author
Solnit, Rebecca, author.
ISBN
9781608463299 (hardcover)
160846329X (hardcover)
9781608469468
1608469468
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.
Language
English
Description
188 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
HN59.2 .S663 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.0973
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.
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Foreword: Politics and the American language
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I. Electoral catastrophes: The loneliness of Donald Trump ; Coda (July 16, 2018) ; Milestones in misogyny ; Twenty million missing storytellers
II. American emotions: Ideology of isolation ; Naèive 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 ; The monument wars ; Eight million ways to belong ; The light from Standing Rock
IV. Possibilities: Break the story ; Hope in grief ; In praise of indirect consequences.

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