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"Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language with which we describe it. Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change"--
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Social conditions, Social justice, Political culture, Social action, United states, politics and government, United states, social conditions, Politics and government, Civilization, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Essays, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Social problemsPlaces
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Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises
Sep 04, 2018, Tantor Audio
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
Sep 11, 2018, Haymarket Books
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Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)
2018
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