desterrados mixed-blood resettlement

books:

1 review
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975

No bosses, no bankers, no owners, no wars...
There is no better work of fiction that describes what a society based on true anarchy might be like. You soon see that it certainly would not be chaos. That is because a society without leaders and laws is not a society without order- it is just that the order comes from within. That is true order. People work and sacrifice because they recognize that it is in everybody's best interest. Society ...

The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia

3 reviews
Alfredo Molano, Aviva Chomsky

Haymarket Books, 2005

A tough but necessary book to read
In "The Dispossessed", Colombian journalist and sociologist Alfredo Molano, himself a target of political repression, has bravely compiled a frightening collection of powerful testimonies of displaced persons in Colombia, victims of the ongoing resource war and class war ravaging this strategic Latin American nation connecting South America with Central America. Rather than engaging in abstract ...

Doorways For the Dispossessed

2 reviews
Paul Haines

Prime Books, 2006

An excellent collection
This is a strong, entertaining collection of stories by a writer with a keen eye for the things that others normally turn away from - the venal, dirty things, the selfish things, the little idiocies that people do every day - and while he delights in them, finds them hilarious, he's also celebrating what it is to be human. In a paradoxical way, I don't find the stories misanthropic - well, not ...

Critical Theory and Science Fiction

1 review
Carl Freedman

Wesleyan, 2000

Critical Theory needs critical response
It's amazing that people can judge a book by reading excerpts on the net. Critical Theory and Science Fiction is not an easy read but CT never was or will be. You don't have to agree with the Marxist theories of Bloch and Adorno, Carl Freedman uses to make his various points, to appreciate his insights and the challenges he throws at the reader. That is what academics are supposed to do and ...

Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums

1 review
Mark Kramer

Orbis Books, 2006

Eager to read more..
I particularly liked the mix of personal encounter, eye-witness description and factual research. We're reading this book in our JustFaith program;it offered rich ground for discussion without handing us conclusions.The local speaker we invited on the topic of international poverty was from Mexico City. He was wondering if this book is available in Spanish. (Anyone know?)

Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Intrigue, Indians & History - Told like a Novel
The story told in Conquest by Law could be the Enron scandal of the 19th Century...the irony is that it is all true and that you wouldn't have imagined it in your wildest dreams. We are used to a context in which the Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court of the land. It is implicit today that when the Supreme Court says what the law "is"...that is it, 'the final word'! However, ...

The Dispossessed (Panther science fiction)

8 reviews
Ursula K. Le Guin

Voyager, 1976

No bosses, no bankers, no owners, no wars...
There is no better work of fiction that describes what a society based on true anarchy might be like. You soon see that it certainly would not be chaos. That is because a society without leaders and laws is not a society without order- it is just that the order comes from within. That is true order. People work and sacrifice because they recognize that it is in everybody's best interest. Society ...

The Dispossessed

1 review
Dell Shannon

William Morrow & Co, 1988

The Dispossessed
An excellent book. I could hardly put it down. This historical fiction of how the Irish fared under the Cromwellian Resettlement Act of the 17th century sheds fascinating light on current affairs in the Ireland of today, and how longstanding prejudices came to be. The characters are well fleshed out and easy to empathize with. The book is well written, easy to read, and informative - and ...

The Dispossessed

3 reviews
Ursula Le Guin

HarperCollins Publishers, 1994

Repossess the future
"To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future." -- one of the more pertinent observations made in this outstanding book, one I found myself thinking about more than any other after reading it. Otherwise "The Dispossessed" is, among other things, an exploration of utopias, political systems and the politics of utopias. As usual Le Guin ...

Priest: Strain of the Dispossessed, Vol. 13 (Priest)

3 reviews
Min-Woo Hyung

TokyoPop, 2004

muy bueno
well if you're looking for volume 14 you probably already know this is a good manga... oh well. this is a very unique manga, in the story & the art. the cover art is always amazing & inside the book it is just as striking. 'priest' doesn't have tones everywhere for shading; the creator said in an interview in one of the books that toned mangas all look somewhat alike & he wanted something ...

The Dispossessed

94 reviews
Ursula K. Le Guin

Eos, 1994

Outstanding Utopian Work of Freedom and Liberty
Science fiction has often described libertarian societies and ideals. Think of such works as Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land," Russell's ". . .and Then There Were None," and Williamson's "The Equalizer," among others. One of the most explicit of science fiction works on a society characterized by freedom is Ursula LeGuin's "The Dispossessed." At one point in the history of the planet ...

The Dispossessed: Living With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

1 review

Dispossessed Project, 1998

A chilling documentary of the lives of people with MCS
This is a chilling documentary depicting the life of fifty people who are afflicted with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. MCS is a diseaese caused by our chemical society, where people become 'allergic' to everyday chemicals, such as fragrances, gasoline, plastics and conventional houses. The book gives us a short glimpse of how people with this disease live their lives, how they cope, and have ...

The Dispossessed Majority

9 reviews
Wilmot Robertson

H. Allen, 1981

I Recommend This Book To Every American
This book should be on the bookshelf of every European-American, and of every student of political science/social science/urban studies/etc. Don't buy this book if you're a narrow-minded "liberal" (you might not like it).

The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes : An Advocate's Chronicle

1 review
Parker M. Nielson

University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

The Holocaust not taught in History class
This book is a Marvel! It taught me about the things that are not taught to us in History class. The Native American Holocaust (The American Holocaust) has never even been mentioned in any of my classes. The fact that Columbus really was no hero and that he really did NOT find America. The Spanish came here to get away from the disease and famine of Spain and ended up spreading disease and ...

The Phoenix Exultant: or, Dispossessed in Utopia

24 reviews
John C. Wright

Tor Books, 2003

the saga continues in full force
Rating System: 1 star = abysmal; some books deserve to be forgotten 2 star = poor; a total waste of time 3 star = good; worth the effort 4 star = very good; what writing should be 5 star = fantastic; must own it and share it with others THE STORY: Continuing right where Book1: The Golden Age left off, we find Phaethon exiled from society as he knows it. This story is of his attempt to ...

The Possessed and the Dispossessed : Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (Comparative ...

1 review
Lesley A. Sharp

University of California Press, 1996

The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and
This deeply contextualized ethnography of possession deals with women, migration, and power as frames for both spirit possession and the construction of identity in the booming migrant town of Ambanja, in the Sambirano valley of northern Madagascar. The Malagasy word for the possession experience is tromba, which refers as well to the royal ancestral spirits of the Sakalava (the ethnic group ...

Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros

1 review
Robert D. Hamner

University of Missouri Press, 1997

Help from Hamner
Although Derek Walcott's Caribbean meditation on Homer's Odyssey stands by itself as an eloquent and thrilling work of epic poetry, to read it without a helping hand--or book--is to miss many of its riches. In accessible language (no unintelligible academic posturing here), Hamner reveals the allusions and untangles the threads: Homer, history of St. Lucia, Walcott's autobiographical ...

Tva and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of a Population in the Norris Dam Area

1 review
Michael J. McDonald, John Muldowny

Univ of Tennessee Pr, 1982

Good Book
This book had a LOT of great information about this period in our history....Anyone from this area would enjoy the reading...

The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

1 review

Lexington Books, 2005

description of book by the editor
Here is a fuller description of the book from the editor: The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as "The most striking description I know of the seductions -- and snares -- of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society." To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Ursula Le Guin's Hugo and Nebula award-winning ...

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

2 reviews
John Phillips, Martin Evans

Yale University Press, 2008

Outstanding one-volume history of Algeria and its problems
The book is worthy to stand next to Alistair Horne's classic "A Savage War of Peace" in the bibiliography of books about this fascinating country with a tragic history. Not only does it clearly describe the war for independence in the 50's and 60's, but it also provides a very readalbe acount of the extreme violence the country witnessed in the 1990's. It also provides some interesting lessons ...

search for books
desterrados, dispossessed, mixed-blood, resettlement, sensitivities

Impressum / about us