Title Medicine stories : essays for radicals / Aurora Levins Morales

Edition Revised and expanded edition Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press Contents Ecology is everything -- Bigger is better -- My feminism -- Identity and solidarity -- The power of story -- The truths our bodies tell -- False memories : trauma and liberation -- The historian as curandera -- Night flying : power, memory, and magic -- What race isn't : teaching about racism -- Racism : rootedness as spiritual and political practice -- The politics of childhood -- On not writing English -- Forked tongues : on not speaking Spanish -- Certified organic intellectual -- Ban me! -- The tribe of Guarayamín -- Taino citizenship -- Speaking of antisemitism -- BDS and me -- Puerto Ricans and Jews -- Class, privilege and loss -- Nadie La Tiene : land, ecology and nationalism -- Torturers -- Histerimonia : declarations of a trafficked girl or Why I couldn't write this essay -- Building radical soil -- Circle unbroken : the politics of inclusion -- Tai : a Yom Kippur sermon, 5778/2017 Summary In this revised and expanded edition of this book, the author weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues Notes Includes index "Medicine Stories originally published by South End Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998; republished by Duke University Press, 2019." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from digital title page (Duke Books, viewed on November 21, 2019) digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Levins Morales, Aurora, 1954- SUBJECT Levins Morales, Aurora, 1954- fast Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Women historians -- United States -- Biography Historians -- United States -- Biography Feminists -- United States -- Biography Jews -- Puerto Rico -- Biography LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. Authors, American Ethnic relations Feminists Historians Jews Women historians SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Ethnic relations Subject Puerto Rico United States Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018041258 ISBN 9781478003373 1478003375

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