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This Land Is Our Land

Author : Suketu Mehta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781529112955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Suketu Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. The West, he argues, is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. He juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of labourers, nannies and others, from Dubai to New York, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. This Land is Our Land also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swathes of the world. When today's immigrants are asked, 'Why are you here?', they can justly respond, 'We are here because you were there.' And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention, and literary polemic of the highest order.

This Land Is Our Land

Author : Jedediah Purdy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216797
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Jedediah Purdy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

This Land Is Our Land

Author : Alex Stepick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520233980
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Alex Stepick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, this text examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism.

This Land Is Our Land

Author : Linda Barrett Osborne
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613129270
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Linda Barrett Osborne and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, Linda Barrett Osborne’s This Land is Our Land “explores the history of American immigration from the early colonization of the continent to the contemporary discussions involving undocumented aliens.”* American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the “American Dream.” On the other hand, depending on prevailing economic conditions, fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation, we set boundaries and restrictions on who may come to this country and whether they may stay as citizens. This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout US history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue. “Exceptional . . . Outstanding archival photographs and illustrations complement the comprehensive text and encourage thoughtful discussion . . . An excellent time line and end notes and a thorough bibliography make this an effective research tool.” —*School Library Journal (Starred Review)

This Land Is Their Land

Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869268
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Their Land written by David J. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

This Land Is Our Land

Author : Ken Ilgunas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735217858
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Ken Ilgunas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s public lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few. Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces. Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly—from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.

This Land

Author : Christopher Ketcham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0735220980
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book This Land written by Christopher Ketcham and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--

From Our Land to Our Land

Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609809734
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book From Our Land to Our Land written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, “Like millions of Americans, I’m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for this country. One for the shared well-being of everyone. One with beauty, healing, poetry, imagination, and truth.” The pieces in From Our Land to Our Land capture that same fantastic energy and wisdom and will spark conversation and inspiration.

This Is Our Land

Author : Cody Ferguson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813565642
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book This Is Our Land written by Cody Ferguson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems. Here are stories of common people who, confronting environmental threats to the health and safety of their families and communities, bonded together to protect their interests. These stories include successes and failures as citizens learned how to participate in their democracy and redefined what participation meant. Equally important, Ferguson describes how several laws passed in the seventies—such as the National Environmental Policy Act—gave citizens the opportunity and the tools to fight for the environment. These laws gave people a say in the decisions that affected the world around them, including the air they breathed, the water they drank, the land on which they made their living, and the communities they called home. Moreover, Ferguson shows that through their experiences over the course of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, these citizen activists broadened their understanding of “this is our land” to mean “this is our community, this is our country, this is our democracy, and this is our planet.” As they did, they redefined political participation and expanded the ability of citizens to shape their world. Challenging us to see activism in a new way, This is Our Land recovers the stories of often-unseen citizens who have been vitally important to the environmental movement. It will inspire readers to confront environmental threats and make our world a safer, more just, and more sustainable place to live.

This Land Is My Land

Author : George Littlechild
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613613903
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is My Land written by George Littlechild and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada.

This Land is Our Land

Author : Marion Shoard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856750646
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book This Land is Our Land written by Marion Shoard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how ramblers, road protesters and country lovers are coming together to challenge the rural land ownership regime. It argues that the urban population should use its democratic strength to deprive rural landowners of their grip on the countryside. first of a series of forthcoming challenges to landowner control of the countryside. It was followed by the 100,000-strong protest of the landowners' Countryside Alliance at Hyde Park in July 1997. This work on the politics of rural land ownership, appears on the eve of the second reading of the fox-hunting Bill. the last 1000 years, and analyzes the current ownership of the countryside. It unveils a radical programme of action, setting out a new social contract through which landowners and the people would share control of the countryside.

Our Land, Ourselves

Author : Peter Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Land, Ourselves written by Peter Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Land Is Your Land

Author : Woody Guthrie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316321923
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Your Land written by Woody Guthrie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the classic Woody Guthrie folk song, perfect for a family singalongs! Since its debut in the 1940s, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" has become one of the best-loved and most timely folk songs in America, inspiring activism and patriotism for all. This classic ballad is now brought to life in a richly illustrated edition for the whole family to share. Kathy Jakobsen's detailed paintings, which invite readers on a journey across the country, create an unforgettable portrait of our diverse land and the people who live it.

Haa Aaní

Author : Walter Goldschmidt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295976396
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Haa Aaní written by Walter Goldschmidt and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1940s, a boom in white migration to Southeast Alaska brought up questions of land and resource rights. In 1946, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs assigned a team of researchers to interview old and young villagers to discover who owned and used the lands and waters of the region and under what rules. Their report is published here for the first time in book form, along with text of interviews with 88 natives, a reminiscence by an anthropologist on the research team, and an introduction explaining the context and significance of the original report. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Where Is Our Land?

Author : Awulah Naanii Amon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425956776
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Where Is Our Land? written by Awulah Naanii Amon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Save Our Land, Save Our Towns

Author : Thomas Hylton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Save Our Land, Save Our Towns written by Thomas Hylton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about what we can do to preserve and nurture communities in Pennsylvania.

I Love Our Land

Author : Carol Greene
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766040403
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book I Love Our Land written by Carol Greene and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find out why our land is important, and how people can protect it"--Provided by publisher.