In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.
Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be "Indian" in North America. It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. At the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is land: "The issue has always been land." With that insight, the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North America--broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal violence, and racist stereotypes--sharpens into focus. Both timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way forward for Indians and non-Indians alike.
Автор: Edelman, Shimon Название: Life Death Inconvenient Truth ISBN: 0262044358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262044356 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 30410.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A reference book for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).
This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.
Edelman avoids reductive synthesis, staying clear of both exuberance and negativity. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources--quoting from a pre-Islamic Bedouin poem on one page, from Gogol on the next, citing both Borges and Marx--Edelman offers insights into the bright and dark sides of our nature. About anxiety, he observes, "All sentient beings are capable of physiological stress response, but it takes special skills to also do anxiety." Happiness is "a commodity that Americans pursue with almost as much verve as oil." Human language, on the other hand, is "an essential window into the sublime." All in all, human nature has much room for improvement. Working out ways to improve it, accompanied by this guide, is an exercise for the reader.
Автор: Walsh Dan Название: An Inconvenient Death ISBN: 1734141735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781734141733 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public-school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system towards a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.
Автор: Smedley Paula Название: The Inconvenient Need to Belong ISBN: 1781329516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781329511 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21440.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An emotional novel about a man who struggles to come to terms with his dark past.
Автор: Bastardi Joe Название: The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won`t Hear from Al Gore--And Others ISBN: 1983509388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781983509384 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A revealing look by someone who has loved the weather since his first memory--and has worked in the field for over 40 years--at what is really inside the man-made "climate change" agenda. The author shows through countless examples, the exploitation, politicization, and weaponization of weather and climate in an effort to promote an agenda that runs counter to the foundations this nation was built on.
Автор: Koyczan Shane Название: Inconvenient Skin ISBN: 1926886518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781926886510 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27540.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Please note this book is in Cree with Translations done by Soloman Ratt
Автор: Adams Elizabeth Название: The Houseguest A Pride and Prejudice Vagary ISBN: 1492318744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781492318743 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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