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In 1921, a white mob murdered hundreds of citizens and decimated
the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With
chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling
fiction, The Burning recreates the town of Greenwood at the height
of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and
mistrust between its Black residents and neighbouring Tulsa's white
population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's
annihilation, and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded
this great tragedy. Delving into history that's long been pushed
aside, much like Hidden Figures, In the Shadow of Liberty, and
Claudette Colvin, this is the true story of Black Wall Street and
the Tulsa Race Massacre, adapted for young readers.
This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport,
presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity,
gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school
sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of
athletics, this text also highlights many of sports' positive
features. This new edition includes significantly updated
statistics, data and information along with updated popular culture
references and real-world examples. Newly explored is the impact of
several major world events that have left lasting effects on the
sports realm, including a global pandemic (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19)
and social movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too. Another
new topic is the "pay for play" movement, wherein college athletes
demanded greater compensation and, at the very least, the right to
profit from their own names, images and likenesses.
This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines,
sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the
environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The
authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must
promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and
all living things. In this greatly expanded second edition, the
authors have updated data and examples, introduced new topics and
concepts, and emphasized the need to lessen our dependence on
fossil fuels. Numerous topics are explored, from the differences
between sustainability and thrivability, and the overuse of
plastic, to mass extinction, the role of natural disasters and
more. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an added perspective on the
relationship between disease and the environment.
Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America's
most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as
America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first
published in 2001, society apparently wasn't ready for such an
unstinting narrative. After it was published, The Burning, like its
subject matter, remained unknown to most in America. That has
changed dramatically. "I began to suspect that a crucial piece
remained missing from America's long attempts at racial
reconciliation," Madigan wrote in 2001 in the author's note to The
Burning. "Too many in this country remained as ignorant as I was.
Too many were just as oblivious to some of the darkest moments in
our history, a legacy of which Tulsa is both a tragic example and a
shameful metaphor. How can we heal when we don't know what we're
healing from?" Now, 100 years after the massacre, Madigan brings
new resonance to these questions in the reissue of this definitive
work of American history. Featuring a brand new afterword, The
Burning skillfully places the Tulsa Massacre in a broader
historical context. Rather than an exception, the massacre was
completely consistent with that time in the United States, an era
of Jim Crow, widespread lynching, and racism endorsed and
promulgated at the highest levels of society. Such were the
foundations of the systemic racism at the root of our problems
today. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the
thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing Black from
white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a Black community then
celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. 34 square blocks of
Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as the Negro Wall Street of
America, were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, 100 years
later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre
is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the
number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to
have been Black), but the actual number of casualties could be
triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed to determine
exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the
historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do
much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most
terrible incident in our shared past. With chilling details,
humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The
Burning recreates the town of Greenwood at the height of its
prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust
between its Black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white
population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's
annihilation, and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded
the tragedy.
Why do billions of people around the world love sports? The popular
media is increasingly dedicated to the heated rivalries of sports
teams, academic institutions are held in its thrall, sports
metaphors are commonplace in our language, and most individuals
participate in athletics or follow a team sport in some variation.
This entertaining and informative book attempts to find out why-by
examining sports in all its facets. The authors provide an overview
of the history of sports, with a constant focus upon the social
conditions through which sport arises and by which it continues to
thrive.
Why do billions of people around the world love sports? The popular
media is increasingly dedicated to the heated rivalries of sports
teams, academic institutions are held in its thrall, sports
metaphors are commonplace in our language, and most individuals
participate in athletics or follow a team sport in some variation.
This entertaining and informative book attempts to find out why-by
examining sports in all its facets. The authors provide an overview
of the history of sports, with a constant focus upon the social
conditions through which sport arises and by which it continues to
thrive.
This ""philosophical"" look at friendship and happiness begins with
a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship-friends of
utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern
variations-casual friends, close friends, best friends-are
described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships
and cyber socialization in the Internet age. Inspired in part by
Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, the authors propose
that conquering unhappiness is key to achieving the
self-satisfaction Russell called zest and Aristotle called
eudaimonia or thriving by our own efforts.
Wake Up is about breaking the vicious cycle of habitual repeated
behavior handed down generation after generation and awakening full
potential. It's time for people to break the vicious cycle of
family dynamics and awaken to who they truly are in order to move
forward and create a life full of freedom. It is possible to change
behaviors that lead to transformation in not only the individual's
life, but in the lives of those around them. Janet Ellis, founder
and CEO of Janet's Planets of Empowerment, shares the process she
herself has followed to break free of the dysfunction that ruled
the early years of her life. As living proof that anyone can emerge
from the other side of depression, sadness, and loneliness, she
teaches readers to awaken to only their Truth, learn to love
themselves regardless of their outer world, break through the
blocks that are holding them back, and more. Within the pages of
Wake Up is the message that no matter where someone comes from,
what their life has been like, as long as they wake up and are
willing to do the work, they can have a life full of freedom and
joy.
It began as another newspaper assignment, a celebrity profile of
the children's television icon. But in Fred Rogers, Texas
journalist Tim Madigan found more than a fascinating subject. From
their first meeting in 1995, at Rogers' invitation, the two became
unlikely friends, a deep and abiding relationship that lasted until
Rogers' death in 2003. In that time, Madigan found Rogers to be
much more than the calm and compassionate personality of
television. He was a person of unique human greatness who embodied
love, compassion and wisdom his every waking moment. He was the
transcendent being who guided Madigan through periods of
life-threatening depression and the tragic death of a sibling and
helped him heal his difficult relationship with his father. I'm
Proud of You reveals Fred Rogers as a person who deserves a place
among history's greatest people. It chronicles male friendship at
its finest and most powerful. And it is a book that has already
brought hope and inspiration to many thousands of its readers. With
this second edition, including a new afterword by the author, the
inspiration continues. "Fred comes to life in I'm Proud of You,
with his simple goodness etched on every page, and his complicated
greatness etched in the heart of every reader who finishes the book
and decides to become a better person."-Tom Junod, writer at large
for Esquire "A loving testament to the power of friendship and to a
most remarkable man." --The Boston Sunday Globe "I'm Proud of You
will connect with the same audience that loved Mitch Albom's
Tuesdays with Morrie and its celebration of male mentoring and
friendship." - USA Today "A poignant, inspiring account..." -
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
In Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment, Delaney and
Madigan approach the study of the environment from two academic
disciplines - sociology and philosophy. Both sociologists and
philosophers have concerns about our environment's ability to not
only sustain itself, but also reach a point where it can actually
thrive. It is especially important to take an interdisciplinary
approach to the study of the environment. In this book we examine
the differences between ""sustainability"" and ""thrivability"" and
discuss such topics as sociological and philosophical
environmentalism, the ecosystem, and mass extinctions. We provide a
review of some of the major human causes (e.g., hydro-fracking, the
use of plastics, food waste, deforestation, and poor agriculture
practises), that will likely bring about the sixth mass extinction.
We take a look at the skepticism toward humans as the cause of a
deteriorating environment and detail nature's adverse role in
harming the environment. We examine ways to help the environment
thrive, and discuss the concept of ""environmental happiness.""
Finally, we give reasons why choosing a thrivability approach is
not only possible but beneficial, and discuss practical ways in
which thrivability can be taught, both in academic settings such as
in college courses, as well as through community efforts.
23 contributors investigate the meaning of humanism today, its
range of perspectives, and how humanists can deal with the
challenges of contemporary life and those it will face as the new
century approaches. This absorbing collection of original essays
examines the abundant variety of historical and contemporary
humanist philosophies, with special emphasis on the work of Thomas
Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault. Focusing on the
need for an awareness of humanist tradition, these essays offer
blunt, progressive self-appraisals to illustrate how humanism will
continue to grow as a vital and compelling intellectual force.
From its founding in 1980, "Free Inquiry" magazine has been 'on the
barricades' in America's great civil struggle between the forces of
tolerance, reason, and humanism, and those of religious dogmatism.
This ethical and political struggle helped define the decade as
much as any government policy or social movement. Led by Paul
Kurtz, America's forthright, unapologetic defender of secular
humanism, "Free Inquiry" enlisted a powerful and eloquent band of
contributors to affirm freedoms of thought and self-determination.
"On the Barricades" collects "Free Inquiry's" very best articles
under one cover.
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