Ana Ribeiro từ Gundepalle at Chodavaram East, Andhra Pradesh, India

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07/04/2024

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2019-08-15 22:31

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ploy Ngọc Bích

I love this book. This book tells the story of nine white women who were leaders in the Civil Rights movement, each told in her own words. They joined early. They were from both the north and the south. They each began to understand and resist segregation and racism from a variety of different angles, moving in and out of each other’s lives as they work on the major southern civil rights struggles; the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge in 1963, Freedom Summer, they were at the planning meetings of SNCC and saw it decline, and participated, though often minimally, in the sit-ins. They were the backbone of the movement, in the field doing grassroots organizing in black and white communities and a huge amount of administrative work to support the field. It is a story of racism, and what it means to understand it, and to resist it. This is a book that struck me particularly at this moment because it spoke to me deeply and meaningfully as a reflection of myself and the work I was doing when I read it in my last weeks in Mississippi, as I prepared to leave and seek out work that is more consciously antiracist. It is a history of the land where I have been living teaching me about my work. But I think it is an important work for activists of all kinds. In this book we see the mythical heroes of the Civil Rights movement at their beginnings. Julian Bond is introduced not as an aged professor, but a young student. And they are moved by an energy that I think any activist can understand, but with a unity and purpose that many of us desire. I am constantly struck by how young the movement was, how much they are like me. Much of the work these women describe includes long nights of mimeographing and phone calls. Although the technology is different, the essence of the work is the same. They are kids working hard and passionately, developing as they go what will be one of the most important movements in American history, with little to no guidance. And they burn out. Fast. I think this is the most striking to me. I guess I never realized how short the Civil Rights movement was “hot,” active and scorching, with its members moving at break-neck speeds. Most spent a few intense years at the core of the movement, and then as the movement changed, they moved on. Many moved on unwillingly, spending the next years or decades searching for the Beloved Community. And I am struck by the unsustainablity of the movement. That no one lasted more than a few years in the thick of it. (I guess this is really important to me because I am walking out of a strangely beloved community at Hands On, with a desire to commit to the work without burning out, and expected to find some sort of guidance from history, but it failed to materialize). * * * No matter how different, Katrina relief is built on the back of the Civil Rights movement. At no point in American History have so many well-meaning, unpaid, white Americans moved through or to the deep south. We ride in integrated cars without blinking and eye. We sit on the porches of black residents without realizing that would have been dangerous and unthinkable to these residents in their own lifetime. This book has taught me about the history I am stepping into, though the women who made it. I have the most respect for the Southern white women who scarified much of their family and personal identity in the very personal decision to fight segregation, which many did before it was a mass movement, before the counterculture of the sixties, when there was no guarantees, just the need to fight injustice. I find in all these women so much power. This book kept my heart pumping and my eyes often watered.

2019-08-16 03:31

Cách Học Ngoại Ngữ Nhanh Và Không Bao Giờ Quên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I just put this book down and ran over to the computer to write the review before I lost the sense of joy it left me with. I know that this review is going to be a challenge for me though, because so much happened in this book and there were so many characters that if I focus on one thing, I’ll be leaving out multitudes of equally wonderful things that happened in a different part. This book took me longer to read than I had hoped, but that was only because life kept getting between me and this glorious piece of writing. The best way I can describe this book is that the writing style is similar to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It takes place in a made up South American country that has the political strife of many real South American countries. The story follows the characters of one particular city, the army and the guerilla fighters. Each chapter is a sort of vignette that focuses on the activities of one (or a few) characters interacting and slowly moves the plot forward. This allowed De Bernieres to create rich and wonderful characters. The plot is hard to describe, the synopsis on the back of the book only covers about the first fourth of the novel. Which is the rich, shallow Dona Constanza deciding to divert the Mula River in order to fill up her swimming pool and the citizens of the city trying to stop her by sabotaging the canal in any way possible. However, by the end of the book Dona Constanza has grown so much as a character that even she realizes how ridiculous she was being at the beginning. Since I feel like I’m failing to do this book justice, I’ll mention a few of my favorite things in hopes that they’ll illustrate the magical qualities of this book. -General Fuerte: He is actually one of the lesser mentioned characters in the story, but he is definitely my favorite. He is one of the few uncorrupt army officers in the book and tries to make sure his branch of the army performs honorably. However, his real passion is the taxonomy of animals, and he eventually deserts in order to follow his dream of recording the different species of hummingbirds found in the jungle. He is eventually captured by the guerillas who originally want to kill him for being in the army, but realize how naïve he is and instead keep him as a prisoner for the majority of the book. He has quite a climactic get away, from the guerillas, the army, and life in general at the end of the novel. But you’ll have to read it to find out what he does. -Aurelio’s story: Aurelio is a Mountain Indian who finds his way into the tribes in the jungle. His story is perhaps the most heartbreaking. He and his wife cannot have children so they raise dogs in attempt to breed a dog that does not bark. While they were out in the jungle one day with their dogs they stumble upon a 4-year-old feral girl. They decide to adopt her and raise her as their own. I don’t want to give away the heartbreaking bit, but tragedy strikes Parlanchina (his daughter) and Aurelio swears revenge upon the army. What I love about his story is that he sets up his traps for the army in the middle of the book, but nothing happens with them until the end, when the reader and Aurelio has forgotten about his plan. And by the end he regrets his revenge because more people died needlessly after the war was over. -The Plague of Cats: This part of the novel is never really explained, but is probably my favorite magical realism aspect of the book. There is also a plague of laughter that hits, but it’s not as enjoyable as the kitties. OH and De Bernieres definitely alludes to One Hundred Years of Solitude (and possible another magical realism book I have yet to read?) in one paragraph, “Around here no one seems to think such extraordinary events as plagues of cats and plagues of laughter have any significance. I have been told that before I came, there were on various places a plague of falling leaves, a plague of sleeplessness, one of invisible hailstones, a plague of amnesia, and another time there was a rainstorm for several years that reduced everything to rust and mold.” Which made me squee like a little fan girl for 5 minutes. Anyway back to the cats: One day the people of the city wake up and find that it has been invaded by hundreds of cats. And they have no desire to go anywhere and just like to be mischievous little things. They are also apparently are immortal, one of the characters got fed up with one while he was trying to pack, shot it, and it shrugged it off and kept batting at a drawstring. Eventually the cats begin to grow to the size of ocelots, then pumas, and by the end of the book they are the size of jaguars and they are intensely loyal to their people. They are just a good addition to the story. So. There are my 3 favorite parts of the story (and it was hard to limit myself). I highly recommend you go out and find it and read it and love it. I will be tracking down the second and third part of the story (did I forget to mention it’s a trilogy yesssss) and all the other books by this author.

Người đọc Ana Ribeiro từ Gundepalle at Chodavaram East, Andhra Pradesh, India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.