Ripples Of Hope In The Mississippi Delta
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Author |
: David K. Jones |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2024-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469681108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469681102 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta by : David K. Jones
The Mississippi Delta consistently ranks as having some of the worst health outcomes in the United States. Even with this stark reality, researcher David K. Jones (1981–2021) found "ripples of hope." For four years, Jones turned to residents and local leaders to learn firsthand the intricate connections between race, place, and health in the region. Using an innovative mix of photovoice, policy, and social science research, Jones weaves their insights with data analysis to show how local, state, and national policies and structures, whether or not intentional, constrain or expand daily choices that affect health. Blaming individuals for poor health choices isn't the remedy. Jones describes how a community-led, goal-oriented approach to creating health equity policies is needed and that everyone benefits when we ensure that all people can pursue a healthy, fulfilling life. In this compassionate and practical book, Jones provides a roadmap for anyone who would like to make a difference, wherever they live. Jones calls on his readers to act for change and provides examples from the Delta to show how. He reminds us that small steps—"ripples of hope"—can save lives and improve health.
Author |
: Kerry Kennedy |
Publisher |
: Center Street |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2018-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478918264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478918268 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope by : Kerry Kennedy
The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through conversations with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity. Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother John. After winning the California presidential primary on June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot, and he died the following day. He was forty-two. Fifty years later, Robert Kennedy's passions and concerns and the issues he championed are -- for better and worse-still so relevant. Ripples of Hope explores Kennedy's influence on issues at the heart of America's identity today, including moral courage, economic and social justice, the role of government, international relations, youth, violence, and support for minority groups, among other salient topics. Ripples of Hope captures the legacy of former senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy through commentary from his daughter, as well as interviews with dozens of prominent national and international figures who have been inspired by him. They include Barack Obama, John Lewis, Marian Wright Edelman, Alfre Woodard, Harry Belafonte, Bono, George Clooney, Gloria Steinem, and more. They share personal accounts and stories of how Kennedy's words, life, and values have influenced their lives, choices, and actions. Through these interviews, Kerry Kennedy aims to enlighten people anew about her father's legacy and bring to life RFK's values and passions, using as milestones the end of his last campaign and a life that was cut off much too soon. Thurston Clarke provides a powerful foreword to the book with his previous reporting on RFK's funeral train.
Author |
: Ellen B. Meacham |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2018-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496817464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149681746X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Delta Epiphany by : Ellen B. Meacham
In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother to a president, touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face and hair. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears. In Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed. The book includes thirty-seven powerful photographs, a dozen published here for the first time. Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta as part of a Senate subcommittee investigation of poverty programs lasted only a few hours, but Kennedy, the people he encountered, Mississippi, and the nation felt the impact of that journey for much longer. His visit and its aftermath crystallized many of the domestic issues that later moved Kennedy toward his candidacy for the presidency. Upon his return to Washington, Kennedy immediately began seeking ways to help the children he met on his visit; however, his efforts were frustrated by institutional obstacles and blocked by powerful men who were indifferent and, at times, hostile to the plight of poor black children. Sadly, we know what happened to Kennedy, but this book also introduces us to three of the children he met on his visit, including the baby on the floor, and finishes their stories. Kennedy talked about what he had seen in Mississippi for the remaining fourteen months of his life. His vision for America was shaped by the plight of the hungry children he encountered there.
Author |
: T. R. Pearson |
Publisher |
: Mockingbird Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2010-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780982852811 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0982852819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Year of Our Lord by : T. R. Pearson
Lucas McCarty lives in the Mississippi Delta. He is the only white congregant in the African-American Trinity House of Prayer Holiness church. Lucas is bereft of the ability to speak due to cerebral palsy, yet he sings there in the church choir. Thus is the subject of Year of Our Lord, a portrait of courage, acceptance and grace, rendered in the lyrical prose of T.R. Pearson and the haunting photographs of Langdon Clay. Year of Our Lord is a visual journey, exploring one of the poorest parts of the American South, a place that economic progress has left behind. And it is a spiritual journey, a revelation of a community that has replaced the hope for earthly prosperity with an abundance of faith in God and the life beyond. The Delta¿s is a culture that can look upon Lucas and say, ¿God don¿t make mistakes.¿ It is a place that in the face of abject poverty can proclaim, life offers ¿too much joy!¿ Year of Our Lord, then, is an opportunity to see into another¿s world, and to embrace the best of it.
Author |
: Michael S. Hindus |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2017-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807836095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807836095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prison and Plantation by : Michael S. Hindus
This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of informal and extralegal authority while South Carolina--a rural southern slave state--systematically reduced its formal legal institutions, frequently relying on vigilantism. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author |
: Paul D. Escott |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807842931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807842935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The South for New Southerners by : Paul D. Escott
Essays offer newcomers to the region information on Southern culture and history, and advice on adjusting to life in the contemporary South
Author |
: John Alexander Williams |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 2003-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807860526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807860522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Appalachia by : John Alexander Williams
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region.
Author |
: Vincent Bzdek |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230620872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230620876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kennedy Legacy by : Vincent Bzdek
John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can be seen as essentially one, each successive brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy can finally be taken. This is a story of a brotherhood in three acts: Act I is John F. Kennedy's presidency, as seen from Ted's front-row seat. Act II is Robert Kennedy's five brief years as the family standard bearer, including his tenure in the Senate with his brother Ted and the memorable 82-day presidential campaign that redefined the Kennedy legacy. Act III is Ted's 40-plus years in the Senate as keeper of the flame. How did the brothers pass the torch to each other? What have the three brothers left us collectively? And who carries the torch forward now? The Kennedy Legacy compellingly answers these questions and much more.
Author |
: Arthur S. Link |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807897116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807897119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921 by : Arthur S. Link
Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921
Author |
: Michelle T. Moran |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2012-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469606736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469606739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonizing Leprosy by : Michelle T. Moran
By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home. Although medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran demonstrates that they adapted regulations developed at one site for use at the other by changing rules to conform to ideas of how "natives" and "Americans" should be treated. By analyzing administrators' decisions, physicians' treatments, and patients' protests, Moran examines the roles that gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality played in shaping both public opinion and health policy. Colonizing Leprosy makes an important contribution to an understanding of how imperial imperatives, public health practices, and patient activism informed debates over the constitution and health of American bodies.