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The Miner s Canary
Author | : Lani GUINIER,Gerald Torres,Lani Guinier |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674038035 |
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Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
The Miner s Canary
Author | : Lani Guinier,Gerald Torres |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674254237 |
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Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept "political race," Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
The Miner s Canary
Author | : Niles Eldredge |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780691241845 |
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Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity accelerate extinction? What really causes it? In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.
The Miner s Canary
Author | : Niles Eldredge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : OCLC:1412650734 |
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The Miner s Canary
Author | : K. Jack Butler,Art Gallery of Windsor |
Publsiher | : Windsor, Ont. : Art Gallery of Windsor |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : MSU:31293029266362 |
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The Miners Canary
Author | : Art Gallery of Windsor,Robert McLaughlin Gallery,Thames Art Gallery |
Publsiher | : Oshawa, Ont. : Robert McLaughlin Gallery |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1006932472 |
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Canary in the Coal Mine
Author | : Madelyn Rosenberg |
Publsiher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780823427710 |
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Bitty is a canary whose courage more than makes up for his diminutive size. Of course, as a miner bird who detects deadly gas leaks in a West Virginia coal mine during the Depression, he is used to facing danger. Tired of perilous working conditions, he escapes and hops a coal train to the state capital to seek help in improving the plights of miners and their canaries. In the tradition of E.B. White, George Selden, and Beverly Cleary's Ralph S. Mouse, Madelyn Rosenberg has written a singular novel full of unforgettable characters.
The Complete Idiot s Guide to Native American History
Author | : Walter C. Fleming |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0028644697 |
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This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment-both historical and recent-under the U.S. government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations.