Do The Work (eBook)

A guide to understanding power and creating change.

Roxane Gay, Megan Pillow (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
128 Seiten
Leaping Hare Press (Verlag)
978-0-7112-6897-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide.Power is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights, this guide provides a foundation for examining hierarchies and inequalities and establishes a framework for understanding power and how it shapes our lives and communities.Between these pages, theory, commentary, and analysis create an engaging, creative, and mindful reading experience. This guide features approachable overviews of complex topics, thought-provoking questions, evocative illustrations, pages for your reflections, and steps we can all take to reframe our relationship to power and reinvigorate our desire to empower the people around us.Thanks to the work of writer and scholar Megan Pillow, educator and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, and New York Times bestselling illustrator Aurelia Durand, Do The Workis a must-read for a more just futureand a more equitable now.Do The Work asks:What can we learn about power from history and from our current moment?Who are the powerful, and who are the people denied power?Where are our own sources of power?How do we recognize our mistakes and become more self-aware?What does it mean to reclaim our power and to build community?Do The Workexplains:How theorists from Aristotle to Hannah Arendt have shaped our understanding of powerWhy Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality is at the heart of power discussionsWhat Laura Mulvey and Audre Lorde can teach us about power and genderHow poverty, redlining, and The Voting Rights Act all illustrate power imbalancesWhat the Stonewall Riots showed us about resistance and communityHow to train ourselves in collective thinking, and what it means to ';choose the margins'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2024
• Illustrationen: Aurelia Durand
• Zusatzinfo: 100
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: action • activism • Activity Book • Aftrican American • ally • allyship • anti-racism workbook • antiracism workbook • Antiracist • Audre Lorde • author • awareness • Bad Feminist • BAME • Belief • belonging • better world • Bias • biden • BIPOC • Black History Month • Black lives matter • Brown • Bullying • challenge • changemaker • Civil Rights • Community • Comunity • Culture • dismantle • Diverse • Election • Empowering • empower the future • Environment • Equality • Ethnicity • female • Feminism • feminist • Fight • First Black President • fragility • George Floyd • good ancestor • Guggenheim • guided journal • Handbook • Hannah Arendt • heal • Hope • How to Be • how to be antiracist • Human Rights • Hunger • Identity • inclusive • Inequality • Inspirational • Interactive • Intersectionality • introspection • Jim Crow • Journal • Kamala Harris • Kimberle Crenshaw • Laura Mulvey • lets talk about racism • LGBT • LGBTQ • LGBTQ+ • Microaggression • Mindfulness • Mindset • Motivational • move beyond • Multiculturalism • Nature • new year new you • New York Times • Notebook • Oppression • People of Color • perfomative • perfomative allyship • Philosophy • PIN • Police brutality • Politics • Poverty • Practical Guide • Practices • Prejudice • pride • Profiling • Prompts • questions • Race • racial healing • redlining • reflection • Reflections • resistence • Resolution • Self Help • Sexism • shift the balance • Social Justice • Step by Step • stonewall riots • stop hate • Stress • Structural • Summary • Systemic • systems of power • take action against • theory • thought provoking • Tools • transformational self-help • Trump • unlearn racism • uproot • Violence • Voice • Voting Rights Act • Wake Up • What it takes • white supremacy • without othering • woke • women's • work book • Workshop • world of wakanda
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-6897-5 / 0711268975
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-6897-5 / 9780711268975