Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth's book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague the United States and the world. Among other issues, Dr. Trouth describes and analyzes, through his memoir, racial inequality, poverty, the long-lasting effects of slavery, and man's inhumanity to man. He writes engagingly and with sharp wit about the problems that, for example, African-Americans in the United States still face. Everyone can learn something through Dr. Trouth's story of his own life, which gives a complex historical viewpoint on the United States as well.
Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth’s book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague the United States and the world. Among other issues, Dr. Trouth describes and analyzes, through his memoir, racial inequality, poverty, the long-lasting effects of slavery, and man’s inhumanity to man. He writes engagingly and with sharp wit about the problems that, for example, African-Americans in the United States still face. Everyone can learn something through Dr. Trouth’s story of his own life, which gives a complex historical viewpoint on the United States as well.
Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth's book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague the United States and the world. Among other issues, Dr. Trouth describes and analyzes, through his memoir, racial inequality, poverty, the long-lasting effects of slavery, and man's inhumanity to man. He writes engagingly and with sharp wit about the problems that, for example, African-Americans in the United States still face. Everyone can learn something through Dr. Trouth's story of his own life, which gives a complex historical viewpoint on the United States as well.
"This is an authoritative work, spanning the last 60 years of Zimbabwe's history, told from the unique perspective of a first-hand witnesss. Reflecting his career initially as a human rights lawyer in Bulawayo and later, from 2000, as a member of Parliament for the MDC opposition party, Coltart's personal narrative in compelling and his scope broad. ... Coltart throws new light on the shaping and undoing of a country, from the obstinate racism of Ian Smith that provoked Rhodesia's UDI from Britain in 1965, the civil war of the 1970s which brought independence and hopeful democracy to a scarred nation, the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s and the terror of the Fifth Brigade, to Mugabe's war on white farmers and the urban poor, and seemingly unshakeable grip on power."--Back cover.
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality -- it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.
The opinion columns that were written by civil-rights activist Carl Snowden are both poignant and powerful. These columns address issues involving race, immigration, politics, guns, violence and history. Snowden’s analysis of contemporary issues are based on a lifetime of community activism. His analysis of politics is based on his experience as a former elected official. His penetrating discussion on race issues is from the perspective of a black man that not only lived during the American segregation era, but also as a person who helped his city divest from the racist Republic of South Africa in the 1990s during the height of apartheid. Snowden’s columns on personalities ranging from Oprah Winfrey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are always coupled with the unique perspective of that of an activist. His views on the contemporary issues of our day makes for a good read. A Luta Continua This book is dedicated to my late loving mother - Mrs. Ora Snowden, my sons, and my soulmate.
Some people have a defining moment, others have a defining trait or work. I have nothing of the sort but just a dream that one day something that I say or do will make a positive difference in the mind or heart of someone else. This is a transformative book and it is meant to make you laugh, cry, think, smile, become angry, and go through a variety of emotions as the words on the page unravel before your eyes. This book, like the butterfly on the front cover represents a transformation.
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.
The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefits—such as health insurance, sick days, and childcare options—that are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.
This is the eighteenth volume in a series that provides a continuing up-to-date reference work recording the rapidly changing events in an exceptionally complex part of the world. The volume includes for the first time separate country surveys of the North African states of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
