Author : Alice S. Baum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429722621
This book presents a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence that up to 85 percent of all homeless adults suffer the ravages of substance abuse and mental illness, resulting in the social isolation that has been the hallmark of homelessness in the United States since colonial days. .
Author : Gerald Markowitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520275829
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Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745656781
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.
Author : Rusmir Mahmutćehajić
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9780271038575
Mahmutcehaji'c (former vice president of the Bosnia-Herzegovina government) first prepared this text as a lecture to be given at Stanford University in 1997, but he was unexpectedly denied a visa to enter the United States. The book is an indictment of the partition of Bosnia and a plea for Bosnia's communities to reject ethnic segregation and restore mutual trust. He argues that different religious and ethnic cultures have co-existed in Bosnia for centuries, and that the partitioning was made possible by Western complicity with Serbian and Croatian nationalists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Michael A. Milburn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262631846
What is the driving force behind the rage of America's white males? Emotion appears to be playing a growing role in politics, as evidenced by vociferous opposition to welfare, abortion, and immigrants, as well as by the rise of the radical Religious Right, antienvironmentalism, and the increasingly neoconservative slant of American public opinion. The Politics of Denial presents a compelling explanation of these phenomena, providing solid empirical evidence for the role of rigid, harsh child-rearing practices in the creation of punitive, authoritarian adult political attitudes. The authors, social psychologists, show how both the political and the public policy processes in the United States are distorted by the unresolved negative emotions (such as fear, anger, and helplessness) that remain from punitive parenting and by the politicians and conservative religious leaders who exploit those emotions. Among the many public figures discussed are Patrick Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, and Billy Graham.
Author : Lee Cody
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0557599679
"In 1964, in the midst of the volatile times surrounding the Civil Rights Movement, Sergeants C. Lee Cody, Jr. and Donald R. Coleman, Sr., solved one of our nation's worst hate crimes and paid for it with their careers. In the years since, Cody has collected and catalogued a mountain of documents providing irrefutable evidence that exposes blatant racism prevalent in high places--in both federal and state offices--and he has created a horrifying tale of coverups and corruption resulting in flagrant violations of the 14th Amendment and a disregard for the Civil Rights guaranteed citizens under our nation's Constitution for equal protection under the laws. As told in part on Oprah, the History Channel, Court TV, and Dateline, this is the tragic story of the premeditated murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell, a thirty-five-year-old law-abiding black mother of ten and after her murder, the decades long criminal obstruction of justice. It is a story of racism and public corruption at its ugliest. In addition to the racism, Cody's expose also reveals the persecution of the Duval County detectives who solved the Chappell homicide and their attempts to bring the guilty to justice. Cody details the massive conspiracy on the part of law enforcement and government officials and prosecutors orchestrated by both state and federal officials--including even members of the FBI, who were determined to cover up for those responsible for the Criminal obstruction of justice in Johnnie Mae Chappell's murder"--Cover, p. 4.
Author : David Billings
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934390047
Deep Denial explains why racism is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today. Each chapter begins with a deeply personal account from the author's life. After drawing the reader into his topic, he lays out the historical facts, while still retaining the master storyteller's sense of engagement with the reader.
Author : Michael Janeway
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300089066
With wit, clarity, and an eye for offbeat cultural indicators, Janeway examines the full complex of forces that have corroded our press, politics, and public life.
Author : Mary Ann Calo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African American art
ISBN : 9780472032303
Rewrites the history of African American art and artists in the inter-war years
Author : Elbridge A. Colby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300262647
Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of U.S. defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America’s defense must change to address China’s growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America’s goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests. The most informed and in-depth reappraisal of America’s defense strategy in decades, this book outlines a rigorous but practical approach, showing how the United States can prepare to win a war with China that we cannot afford to lose—precisely in order to deter that war from happening.
