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This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination
disaster in the context of a broader crisis created by neoliberal
governance in the United States. Authors from a range of
disciplines (including sociology, criminal justice, anthropology,
history, communications, and jurisprudence) examine the failures in
Flint, with an emphasis on comparison. Their analysis calls
attention to similar trajectories for cities like Detroit and
Pontiac, in Michigan, and Stockton, in California. While the
studies collected here emphasize policy failures, class conflict,
and racial oppression, they also attend to the resistance
undertaken by Flint residents, Michiganders, and U.S. activists, as
they fought for environmental and social justice. Contributors
include: Terressa A. Benz, Jon Carroll, Graham Cassano, Daniel J.
Clark, Katrinell M. Davis, Michael Doan, David Fasenfest, A.E.
Garrison, Peter J. Hammer, Ami Harbin, Shea Howell, Jacob Lederman,
Raoul S. Lievanos, Benjamin J. Pauli, and Julie Sze.
Three people have shaped David Grant's life. Now one is on the
other side of the country, one is on the other side of the world,
and one may be gone forever. Dave's Dad is always there for him.
But everything changed in Niagara Falls, where Dave learned that
fathers are not superheroes. They are flawed and fallible and
invaluable models of the men that boys become. Dave's best friend
is Ollie. And you can always count on "The Big Man" to carry Dave,
his wheelchair, or both during hard times. They joked and fought
their way through the adolescent purgatory that was Slauson Junior
High School, and together they can survive anything. But can Dave
survive alone? His first day at Slauson, Dave met Annie, and she
was perfect in a twelve-year-old boy's eyes. Over the years, their
adventures in Toronto and the Bahamas brought them closer, but now
the distance between them may be insurmountable. And so Dave's
journey to find them begins. The question is: where will his
journey end?
A Gathering of Promises is a history of acid rock and psychedelic
music in and from the state of Texas, focusing largely on its
mid-1960s origins with the 13th Floor Elevators and contemporaries
such as the Golden Dawn, the Red Crayola and Bubble Puppy, and
following its development to the present day and the popularity of
the annual Austin Psych Fest. Grounded in a strong social, cultural
and historical context, the book asks how Texas produced some of
the most extreme and influential psych of any era despite a
prevailing social ethos of Christian conservatism and the strictest
drug laws of any American state. It looks at how this environment
shaped and affected the music, alongside the Texan frontier spirit
and its championing of expansion, freedom and individualism.
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