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Race Experts

How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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Race Experts

How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

This book illuminates how far away we are from the real race issues that are deserve our attention.

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Race Experts

How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

This book illuminates how far away we are from the real race issues that are deserve our attention.

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Ars Vitae

The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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Ars Vitae

The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life. The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledged crisis for individuals and communities while current modes of making sense of our lives prove inadequate. Yet, in this time of alienation and spiritual longing, we can glimpse signs of a renewed interest in ancient approaches to the art of living. In this ambitious and timely book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn engages both general readers and scholars on the topic of well-being. She examines the reappearance of ancient philosophical thought in contemporary American culture, probing whether new stirrings of Gnosticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Platonism present a true alternative to our current therapeutic culture of self-help and consumerism, which elevates the self’s needs and desires yet fails to deliver on its promises of happiness and healing. Do the ancient philosophies represent a counter-tradition to today’s culture, auguring a new cultural vibrancy, or do they merely solidify a modern way of life that has little use for inwardness—the cultivation of an inner life—stemming from those older traditions? Tracing the contours of this cultural resurgence and exploring a range of sources, from scholarship to self-help manuals, films, and other artifacts of popular culture, this book sees the different schools as organically interrelated and asks whether, taken together, they can point us in important new directions. Ars Vitae sounds a clarion call to take back philosophy as part of our everyday lives. It proposes a way to do so, sifting through the ruins of long-forgotten and recent history alike for any shards helpful in piecing together the coherence of a moral framework that allows us ways to move forward toward the life we want and need.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268108919

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9780268108915

Black Neighbors

Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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Black Neighbors

Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward their new neighbors. Nationally, the movement did not take a concerted stand on the issue of race until after World War II. In Black Neighbors, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn analyzes this reluctance of the mainstream settlement house movement to extend its programs to African American communities, which, she argues, were assisted instead by a variety of alternative organizations. Lasch-Quinn recasts the traditional definitions, periods, and regional divisions of settlement work and uncovers a vast settlement movement among African Americans. By placing community work conducted by the YWCA, black women's clubs, religious missions, southern industrial schools, and other organizations within the settlement tradition, she highlights their significance as well as the mainstream movement's failure to recognize the enormous potential in alliances with these groups. Her analysis fundamentally revises our understanding of the role that race has played in American social reform.

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UNC Press Books

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1469621495

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9781469621494

Black Neighbors

Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945

By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945

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