{"product_id":"medicine-stories-9781478001904","title":"Medicine Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair.\" -- Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa * Monthly Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of \u003ci\u003eMedicine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... \u003ci\u003eMedicine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” -- Corinne Lajoie * Journal of Literary \u0026amp; Cultural Disability Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibation  v\u003cbr\u003e The Ground on Which I Stand\u003cbr\u003e Ecology Is Everything  3\u003cbr\u003e Bigger \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e Better  10\u003cbr\u003e My Feminism  18\u003cbr\u003e Identity and Solidarity  34\u003cbr\u003e The Power of Story  42\u003cbr\u003e The Truths Our Bodies Tell  47\u003cbr\u003e The Historian as Curandera\u003cbr\u003e False Memories: Trauma and Liberation  55\u003cbr\u003e The Historian as Curandera  69\u003cbr\u003e Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic  89\u003cbr\u003e What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism  95\u003cbr\u003e Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice  99\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Childhood  104\u003cbr\u003e Speaking in Tongues\u003cbr\u003e On Not Writing English  111\u003cbr\u003e Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish  115\u003cbr\u003e Certified Organic Intellectual  121\u003cbr\u003e Ban Me!  127\u003cbr\u003e Tribes\u003cbr\u003e The Tribe of Guarayamín  133\u003cbr\u003e Taíno Citizenship  140\u003cbr\u003e Speaking of Antisemitism  145\u003cbr\u003e BDS and Me  154\u003cbr\u003e Puerto Ricans and Jews  157\u003cbr\u003e Privilege and Loss\u003cbr\u003e Class, Privilege, and Loss  175\u003cbr\u003e Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism  179\u003cbr\u003e Torturers  192\u003cbr\u003e Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay  197\u003cbr\u003e The Long Haul\u003cbr\u003e Building Radical Soil  207\u003cbr\u003e Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion  211\u003cbr\u003e Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778\/2017  217\u003cbr\u003e A Note From the Author  223\u003cbr\u003e Index  225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408972390743,"sku":"9781478001904","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001904.jpg?v=1730504918","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medicine-stories-9781478001904","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}