Adrianne Aron

Gebundenes Buch

Human Rights and Wrongs

Reluctant Heroes Fight Tyranny

Beschreibung

- 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - A gift of truth for a generation of Dreamers, a vault of memories for their parents, and a record of shame, pride, sorrow, humor, and forgotten fact for a nation of immigrants. One comes away from Human Rights and Wrongs knowing more about motivation, fear, risk-taking, and problem solving than when one began. But more than that, one knows more about the conditions of oppression that force people from all over-Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa-to flee their countries, and the conditions of human support and solidarity that help them rebuild shattered lives. Dr. Aron's book is both instructive and uplifting, and a fierce rebuke to anti-immigrant voices booming across our spacious skies.

Autor

Dr. Adrianne Aron is a practicing psychologist in Berkeley, California. For many years she was clinical director of a pro-bono service for Central American refugees, the Centro Ignacio Martín-Baró, a project of the Committee for Health Rights in the Americas. She is the co-editor and chief translator of a collection of essays by Martín-Baró, Writings for a Liberation Psychology (Harvard University Press) and translator of Mario Benedetti's Pedro y el Capitán, into English as Pedro and the Captain (Cadmus Editions). For respite from her long hours with traumatized refugees she took up writing fiction and little essays of creative nonfiction and, on receiving awards in both genres, was encouraged to write Human Rights and Wrongs in the style of a collection of stories to make the book accessible to the general reader¿-¿the audience a liberation psychologist always wants to reach. Her website is www.adriannearon.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sunshot Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781944977344
• ISBN-10: 1944977341
• Artikelnr.: 54207245