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No more prisons : urban life, homeschooling, hip-hop leadership, the cool rich kids movement, a hitchhiker's guide to community organizing, and why philanthropy is the greatest art form of the 21st century / by William Upski Wimsatt.
Van Pelt Library HN59.2 .W5344 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wimsatt, William Upski.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charity organization.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Inner cities--United States.
- Inner cities.
- Hip-hop.
- Home schooling--United States.
- Home schooling.
- Social action--United States.
- Social action.
- Community organization--United States.
- Community organization.
- Charity organization--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Subway and Elevated Books ; St. Paul, MN : Consortium [distributor], [2000]
- Summary:
- No More Prisons On Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-hop Leadership, The Cool Rich Kids Movement, Community Organizing and Why Philanthropy is the Greatest Artform of the 21st Century. William Upski Wimsatt In this follow-up to the underground best-seller "Bomb the Suburbs, William Upski Wimsatt "The Hitch-hiker's Guide expands its focus out of culture and into politics. Hybridization is favored over ideology, with an emphasis on democracy and community-empowerment through a new theory of development. A truly original document from the paradigm-flipping master of modern praxis.
- Contents:
- All My Hats at Once 1
- What I Want 4
- Why Are All Your Friends in Prison? 7
- Why We Love Prisons 10
- I. A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing
- Aren't You Tired of Having the Same Hairdo as Every Other Ghetto Bitch? 14
- A Book for People Who Don't Usually Read 15
- Not Just a Book-It's a Plan 18
- Bomb the Ghettos 19
- The Bet With America 20
- Hitchhiking as Sport 21
- The Value of a Ghetto Education 23
- The Most Feared Neighborhoods in America 24
- What Bet? Which America? 26
- Selling Bomb the Suburbs in the Suburbs 29
- Publishing Industry Motherfuckers 31
- How Bomb the Suburbs Blew Up in My Face 33
- My Impossible Dream 34
- Triple Consciousness 37
- II. The Cool Rich Kids Movement
- How Break-dancing Got Me Into Philanthropy 40
- In Defense of Rich Kids 42
- The Cool Rich People's Conference 44
- The Most Effective Thing You Ever Do 47
- Money Talks. So Can She: An Interview With Tracy Hewat 51
- III. Homeschooling and Self-Education
- Schoolaholics Anonymous: How to Overcome Your Addiction to School 58
- The University of Planet Earth 59
- The Unschooling Movement 62
- That's Fine for Middle-Class White Kids Like You, But My Children Need a High School Diploma 66
- The Black Homeschooling Movement 69
- A Gourmet Guide to Self-Education 76
- The Self-Education Foundation 79
- IV. Urban Life VS. Suburban Sprawl
- Why I Love My Neighborhood 82
- The Basketball Kidnappings 83
- Suburban Planning 87
- Cities and Suburbs Unite! An Interview With David Rusk 88
- A City-Suburb Coalition? An Interview With Myron Orfield 91
- A Wicked Civilization: An Interview With James Howard Kunstler 94
- Prisons and Gated Communities: How Our Fear of Crime Is Killing Us 98
- V. Hip-Hop Leadership
- Who's Really Saving Our Cities? (It's Not Who You Think) 104
- Hip-Hop as Double-Edged Sword 105
- Innovative Solutions to Urban Problems 107
- Non-Profit Meets Hip-Hop 108
- We Are the People We're Saving 110
- The Out-of-Pocket Sector 112
- Dissed by the Do-Gooders 113
- How to Work With the Hip-Hop Generation 114
- Master of Combinations: An Interview With Rha Goddess 117
- The Millionaire Who Couldn't Read: An Interview With John Payne 124
- VI. The Greatest art Form of the 21st Century
- Why Philanthropy Wasn't Much of an Art Form in the 20th Century 132
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing 133
- Why Isn't There a List of Youth Activists? 134
- Certain Things You Can't Prove 136
- Why Philanthropy Will Be the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century 137
- The Art of Philanthropy 139
- No More Prisons, More of Everything Else 144
- The Organizations We Need 151
- Why You Need to Start Your Own Organization 153
- The Joy of Organizing 154
- Author's Acknowledgements: Why I'm Not in Prison.
- Notes:
- "Second printing March 2000"--P. [5].
- "A benefit for the Active Element Foundation."
- Includes index.
- OCLC:
- 50383754
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