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The Ipuwer Chronicles
A Narrative Suite on Spiritual Warfare
By
Luticia Santipriya
This book contains a bonus feature, The
Panther Onionskin Papyrus: A Reflective Offering (a sketch of
five stories pertaining to key figures of The Black Panther
Party taken from a larger memoir of the author).
The Chronicles are a useful tool for progressive
educators, (high school through graduate school), economists,
historians, social and religious theorists, psychologists,
activists and the concerned.
Handy for discussions on: peace studies, the fallacy of
political paranoia as an authentic delusional disorder, suicide
due to long term unemployment, mental health consequences of the
populace associated with the collapse of the American
infrastructure and its toll in spiritual terms, gutting of the
constitution and privatization, the economy and the stagnation
of personal dreams, race and the economy, the cynicism of
doublespeak, dumbing down and mediocrity, the abandonment of the
middle class, the fallacy of formal education in providing an
entree to U.S. culture and viable employment, and reminiscences
on the legacy of The Black Panther Party.
The Ipuwer Chronicles are named after the Egyptian sage
Ipuwer (pronounced Epu-ware or Epu-or) and is a metaphor answer
to his Admonitions in which he describes a probable earthquake
devastation of Egypt and the ensuing severe reversals of
fortune. Our present text is an author biographical narrative
and observational snapshot pertaining to the winter of 1999
through early 2005 capturing the psychological, spiritual and
economic devastation of the Bush regime over the populace and
intensifying with the Iraqi war.
Scores of people felt that they were not listened to, their
wishes for peace disrespected and that their general will was
run roughshod over. That they were, in effect, left behind and
disinherited by the society that they had invested in so
heavily. As such, The Chronicles are a snapshot of the times in
which we all live and comes fully annotated making it useful for
classroom and public discussion.
Dr. Luticia Santipriya is a medical research psychologist,
theoretician, and clinician having received training in direct
patient care at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical
Center). She has taught epidemiology and bio-ethics, and has
been hailed a master teacher of clinical, abnormal, forensic and
industrial psychology by students and peers alike; and is
distinguished as a Clinical Fellow of Harvard Medical School and
jointly, a Teaching Fellow of Boston University School of
Medicine. A teaching discussion module is included
Visit the Guys/Girls Raised in the South
Online Reading Club for an interview with the author.
thegritsbookclub.com
The Ipuwer Chronicles: A
Narrative Suite on Spiritual Warfare (August 2005) /128 pp., softcover,
1-929103-03-4 / $14.95 / http://www.bookch.com/social.htm#3034
Tel:
(212) 871-9369 /
Email:
Luticia Santipriya
posted 14 February 2006
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
you happy." |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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