"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair." - Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa (Monthly Review) “Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of <i>Medicine Stories</i>...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... <i>Medicine Stories</i> maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” - Corinne Lajoie (Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies)

In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays-twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised-she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, Medicine Stories brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.
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Libation  v
The Ground on Which I Stand
Ecology Is Everything  3
Bigger Is Better  10
My Feminism  18
Identity and Solidarity  34
The Power of Story  42
The Truths Our Bodies Tell  47
The Historian as Curandera
False Memories: Trauma and Liberation  55
The Historian as Curandera  69
Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic  89
What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism  95
RaÍcism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice  99
The Politics of Childhood  104
Speaking in Tongues
On Not Writing English  111
Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish  115
Certified Organic Intellectual  121
Ban Me!  127
Tribes
The Tribe of GuarayamÍn  133
TaÍno Citizenship  140
Speaking of Antisemitism  145
BDS and Me  154
Puerto Ricans and Jews  157
Privilege and Loss
Class, Privilege, and Loss  175
Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism  179
Torturers  192
Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay  197
The Long Haul
Building Radical Soil  207
Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion  211
Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017  217
A Note From the Author  223
Index  225
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478001904
Publisert
2019-04-26
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Biografisk notat

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of several books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of PuertorriqueÑas.