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Author Solnit, Rebecca.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (115 pages)
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Summary Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
Note Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 10, 2018).
Contents Foreword: Politics and the American language -- Armpit wax -- 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 -- Naïve 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.
Subject Social justice -- United States.
Social action -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
Social action. (OCoLC)fst01122251
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Essays.
Other Form: Print version: Solnit, Rebecca. Call Them by Their True Names : American Crises (and Essays). La Vergne : Haymarket Books, ©2018 9781608469468
ISBN 9781608469475 (electronic bk.)
1608469476 (electronic bk.)
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