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It started with a comment on social media, actually, that's not
true, it had started long before then, but that comment led to a
message, which led to several calls and ended with him driving his
car into my house. Through the use of genuine text messages, I've
opened up my life to show what I went through in the last two
years, with an aggressive, lying, stealing, borderline alcoholic,
sociopathic husband. I begin by taking you back to the start, where
life was good, well, okay at least and as the story unfolds, you
can see how not only his behaviour deteriorates, but how the drip
drip effect led me to almost lose myself, in a painful and
sometimes violent relationship. I show how you can move from a
place where you hide your purse under your pillow, and go out with
your passport in your handbag to a place of happiness, and I do
this through the willingness to share my pain, my confusion and the
struggles I went through in order to come out the other side. My
Life with a Sociopath gives you access to the raw, unedited
messages between me and my husband, which together with my honest
commentary, provides an insight into psychological abuse. I hope
that it may help those who find themselves in a similar situation
and will be a voice for those who may have lost theirs.
At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power
movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World
War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic
organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of
liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted
self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often
characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president
McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's
challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term
strategy to foster the "social development" of racial minorities.
The Ford Foundation not only bankrolled but originated many of the
black power era's hallmark legacies: community control of public
schools, ghetto-based economic development initiatives, and
race-specific arts and cultural organizations.In "Top Down," Karen
Ferguson explores the consequences of this counterintuitive and
unequal relationship between the liberal establishment and black
activists and their ideas. In essence, the white liberal effort to
reforge a national consensus on race had the effect of remaking
racial liberalism from the top down--a domestication of black power
ideology that still flourishes in current racial politics.
Ultimately, this new racial liberalism would help foster a black
leadership class--including Barack Obama--while accommodating the
intractable inequality that first drew the Ford Foundation to
address the "race problem."
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of
regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before
the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how
World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture,
and politics of the South.From perspectives grounded in geography,
law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look
at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense,
cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and
petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the
perception that southern industrial growth was spurred by a
disproportionate share of federal investment during and after the
war. In covering the variety of technological, managerial, and
spatial transitions brought about by the South's "second wave" of
industrialization, the case studies also identify a set of themes
crucial to understanding regional dynamics: investment and
development; workforce training; planning, cost-containment, and
environmental concerns; equal employment opportunities;
rural-to-urban shifts and the decay of local economies
entrepreneurism; and coordination of supply, service, and
manufacturing processes. From boardroom to factory floor, the
variety of perspectives in The Second Wave will significantly widen
our understanding of the dramatic reshaping of the region in the
decades after 1940.
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