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Author: Dudley Bennett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1438988427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur beloved country is at a crossroads. Economic and cultural failure raises the question who are we as a country, and what is our destiny. We are citizens committed to personal integrity, expanding education, and ending repression and violence. We pursue the American Dream for ourselves as model for the whole world.
Author: Wendy K. Z. Anderson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1496832787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of these white men’s speech, few notice or have thoughtfully considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women’s messages that organizationally preserve white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework becomes fodder for conservative white women’s political speech to preserve institutional white supremacy.
Author: Leonard Orr
Publisher:
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781425114169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou can create for yourself ongoing health, effortless bliss, prosperity, youthfulness, and even total mastery by consciously using the power of your mind and your breath. Rebirthing in the New Age describes an innovative technique called rebirthing. Rebirthing is a breathing process that does for adults what the Leboyer's "birth without violence" method does for infants... transforming the subconscious impression of birth into a gentle and awakening event. This breathing process produces extraordinary results because as one takes in the light, all else is revealed and let go of; thus one's heart is open to receive love, peace and joy. The rebirthing technique is augmented by the use of affirmations. Thoughts produce effects and we create our happy/unhappy world with our own positive/negative thoughts. The idea behind affirmations is to imprint positive thoughts regarding desired changes into the consciousness through autosuggestion, using the emotional response technique. "The Mind and the Breath are the king and queen of human consciousness." Leonard Orr Since the Rebirthing Movement started in 1974, it has spread all around the globe to over ten million people from all walks of life.
Author: John Philip Newell
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1594735425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDare to imagine a new birth from deep within Christianity, a fresh stirring of the Spirit. “The walls of Western Christianity are collapsing. In many parts of the West that collapse can only be described as seismic.... There are three main responses or reactions to this collapse. The first is to deny that it is happening. The second is to frantically try to shore up the foundations of the old thing. The third, which I invite us into, is to ask what is trying to be born that requires a radical reorientation of our vision. What is the new thing that is trying to emerge from deep within us and from deep within the collective soul of Christianity?” —from the Introduction In the midst of dramatic changes in Western Christianity, internationally respected spiritual leader, peacemaker and scholar John Philip Newell offers the hope of a fresh stirring of the Spirit among us. He invites us to be part of a new holy birth of sacred living. Speaking directly to the heart of Christians—those within the well-defined bounds of Christian practice and those on the disenchanted edges—as well as to the faithful and seekers of other traditions, he explores eight major features of a new birthing of Christianity: Coming back into relationship with the Earth as sacred Reconnecting with compassion as the ground of true relationship Celebrating the Light that is at the heart of all life Reverencing the wisdom of other religious traditions Rediscovering spiritual practice as the basis for transformation Living the way of nonviolence among nations Looking to the unconscious as the wellspring of new vision Following love as the seed-force of new birth in our lives and world
Author: Tom Burrell
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 145875118X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack people are not dark-skinned white people, says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of no way! At this point in history, the idea of black inferiority sh...
Author: Bob Garfield
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780684832180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this bitingly funny look at American culture, NPR's "All Things Considered" commentator Bob Garfield wanders the nation in search of its eccentrics, oddities, and dreamers. He finds, among others, a psychic for pets, wealthy earthworm ranchers, and the folks of Hamilton!, Ohio, who hope that an exclamation point will revitalize their town's economy as well as its name.
Author: David G. Cowart
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1501727052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Wendy Law-Yone (born in Burma), Mylène Dressler (born in the Netherlands), Lan Cao (born in Vietnam), and such Korean-born authors as Chang-rae Lee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Nora Okja Keller—writers who in recent years have come to this country and, in their work, contributed to its culture."—David CowartIn Trailing Clouds, David Cowart offers fresh insights into contemporary American literature by exploring novels and short stories published since 1970 by immigrant writers. Balancing historical and social context with close readings of selected works, Cowart explores the major themes raised in immigrant writing: the acquisition of language, the dual identity of the immigrant, the place of the homeland, and the nature of citizenship.Cowart suggests that the attention to first-generation writers (those whose parents immigrated) has not prepared us to read the fresher stories of those more recent arrivals whose immigrant experience has been more direct and unmediated. Highlighting the nuanced reflection in immigrant fiction of a nation that is ever more diverse and multicultural, Cowart argues that readers can learn much about the changes in the American way of life from writers who have come to this country, embraced its culture, and penned substantial literary work in English.
Author: Glen Browder
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780761823070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer congressman Browder is worried that the current trends of American democracy might result in a "Union of Socialist States of America" or worse. He suggests that we're suffering from a "cumulative distemper" in which we may be tiring of America's "historic Great Experiment." He offers vague prescriptions about embarking on a "National Democratic Renaissance" and rediscovering the "essence of our American nation." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Catherine Dowling
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2014-12-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0738743798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperience a profound engagement with life through the transformational power of spiritual awakenings. Presenting a simple and safe system that can be applied to daily living, Radical Awareness shows you how to achieve the mystical state of oneness. Join author Catherine Dowling as she offers meditation techniques, hands-on exercises, and breathwork methods for enlightenment and expanded awareness. Exploring five practices for turning everyday experiences into opportunities for spiritual growth, you will learn to move past fear and self-sabotage, break the bonds of anger, understand the expectations of others, honor your own values, and more. Grounded in the knowledge of ancient and contemporary world wisdom traditions, Radical Awareness is a down-to-earth, workable guide for living with passion, abundance, and serenity. Praise: “There is much learned and practiced wisdom here!”—Fr. Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation “When you’ve read this book you will understand what mysticism and spirituality are . . . Everyone will grow with [Radical Awareness], even the most experienced. It is a truly excellent book.”—Joy Manne, PhD, author of Conscious Breathing in Everyday Life
Author: Bella Adams
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748629831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of the book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisible. Of particular importance to the writers selected for case studies are questions of racial identity, cultural history and literary value with respect to dominant American ideologies.
