Systemic Collapse and Renewal: How Race and Capital Came to Destroy Meaning and Civility in America and Foreshadow the Coming Economic Depression - Hardcover

 
9781433147401: Systemic Collapse and Renewal: How Race and Capital Came to Destroy Meaning and Civility in America and Foreshadow the Coming Economic Depression
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1433147408 ISBN 13: 9781433147401
Verlag: Peter Lang, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In a time of great U.S. and global social unrest and unravelling, Systemic Collapse and Renewal presents a blueprint for how Americans can respond to that unrest by reclaiming and rebuilding our democracy. Part I of the book traces the deep, underlying sources of the disintegration and collapse. Through storytelling, case history, and ethnography, it examines how a small group of "elites" used ethnic diversity resulting from global migration to the U.S. as a distraction while they implemented a planned, behind-closed-doors strategy to seize the democracy and ruin the middle class. With the former representative democracy hijacked by these moneyed interests, this book demonstrates that it remains quintessentially American to believe that there is always a way out, and that the encroaching acts of fascism by "elites" can be pushed back and defeated. Tapping into this optimism, Part II of Systemic Collapse and Renewal sets forth a path for democratic rebirth. That path begins by examining that which was taken away: the shared meanings (cultural norms, beliefs, and behaviors) that are deeply American and can be re-taught, celebrated, and once again used by Americans to build social cohesion as a country. Part II also urges a new U.S. educational and social movement based on mutual reliance―and on the healing of wounds―for an increasingly diverse country. Democratic renewal begins with the simple step of sharing our stories and our dreams about how to make a better world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gregory K. Tanaka, a former acting law school dean and bank president, is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Social Change and Executive Director of Anamatangi Polynesian Voices in East Palo Alto, CA.

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Verlag
Peter Lang
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1433147408
ISBN 13 
9781433147401
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
274
Herausgeber
Tanaka
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