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English
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
3) There there
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Language
English
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to her family. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together and has come to work the powwow in his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions. The Lies That Bind is an exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. It challenges our assumptions about how identities work. There are conflicts between identities, but Appiah shows how identities are created by conflict....
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English
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“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative years (toilet training through college), living in the South. Mathematically, that makes me just about exactly as Southern as the American people,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, she expected to find her new home to be isolated. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she dug into the making of the modern heartland, and the wider her story became, she realized she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of...
11) The emissary
Author
Series
A New Directions paperback original volume NDP1405
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Japan, after suffering from a massive, irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient -- frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise....
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The 1960s and 1970s were a time of dramatic upheaval in American universities as a new generation of scholar-activists rejected traditional humanism in favor of a radical ideology that denied objective truth. In The Victims' Revolution, critic and scholar Bruce Bawer provides the first history of this radical movement and a sweeping assessment of its intellectual and cultural fruits. Once, Bawer argues, the purpose of higher education had been to...
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English
Description
What causes people to join-- and more importantly, stay in-- extreme groups? The answer, Montell believes, has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. She argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear-- and are influenced by-- every single day. Montell exposes the verbal elements...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques--and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students in these categories are often shunned. Then she celebrates them. The homogenization of the US education system has made outcasts more important than ever. In this conformist, creativity-stifling society,...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vii, 389 pages : illustration, color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive discussion about racism in school, the two young women deferred college admission for a year to collect first-person accounts of how racism plays out in this country every day -- and often in unexpected...
17) Strange new world: how thinkers and activists redefined identity and sparked the sexual revolution
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Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author identifies the historical, philosophical, and technological influences that have shaped present-day identity politics and teaches believers how to shift their modern understanding of personhood to a biblical perspective"--
18) Indigo dreaming
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating a vision of home, as well as a celebration of the Black diaspora.
19) The thistle and the brier: historical links and cultural parallels between Scotland and Appalachia
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Series
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
viii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As borders vanish, more people travel, cultures mingle, and communications across continents become easier, aren't relations between people supposed to be getting less fraught? Why then are people retreating into the refuges of religion, nationality, race, and region? In France the Roma are deported en masse, in Italy Prime Minister Berlusconi has called undocumented workers an 'army of evil' and in Oklahoma, where Muslims are only 0.2 percent of...
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