Medicine Stories

by Morales, Aurora Levins

• ISBN13: 9780896085817
• ISBN10: 0896085813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

This author was raised as a Jewish "red diaper baby" in the mountains of Puerto Rico & is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. At the heart of this book is the conviction that our survival depends on crafting a political practice capable of healing all our wounds, from global, macro-economic injustices to the intimate scars of cruelty in our own lives. With essays on Puerto Rican-Jewish relations, English as a Puerto Rican language, & race & the invention of "whiteness."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Political is Personal: How I Wrote This Book	p. 3
Historian as Curandera
False Memories: Trauma and Liberation	p. 11
The Historian as Curandera	p. 23
The Tribe of Guarayamin	p. 39
Nightflying: Transforming Traumatic Memory	p. 45
The Politics of Childhood	p. 51
Speaking in Tongues
On Not Writing English	p. 57
Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish	p. 61
Certified Organic Intellectual: On Not Being Postmodern	p. 67
Raices
Raicism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice	p. 75
What Race Isn't: Teaching Racism	p. 79
Puerto Ricans and Jews	p. 83
Privilege and Loss
Class, Privilege and Loss	p. 93
Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology and Nationalism	p. 97
Torturers	p. 111
Integrity
Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood	p. 117
Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion	p. 121
Walking the Talk, Dancing to the Music: The Sustainable Activist Life	p. 127
Index	p. 131
About the Author and the Publisher	p. 136
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