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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solnit, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Politics and government.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

Social action--United States.

Social action.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Political culture.

Social problems.

Essays.

Political culture--United States.

Local Subjects:

Social action--United States.

Essays.

Political culture--United States.

Social justice--United States.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Genre:

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.

Summary:

"Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language with which we describe it. Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

ISBN:

9781608463299

160846329X

9781608469468

1608469468

OCLC:

1049990880