Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin Hardcover Book

Description: Imagination by Ruha Benjamin Imagination isnt a luxury; its a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesnt strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isnt a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive. But obstacles abound. We have inherited destructive ideas that trap us inside a dominant imagination. Consider how racism, sexism, and classism make hierarchies, exploitation, and violence seem natural and inevitable-but all emerged from the human imagination. The most effective way to disrupt these deadly systems is to do so collectively. Benjamin highlights the educators, artists, activists, and many others who are refuting powerful narratives that justify the status quo, crafting new stories that reflect our interconnection, and offering creative approaches to seemingly intractable problems. Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrisons instruction: "Dream a little before you think." Author Biography Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University, and a MacArthur Fellow. The author of the Stowe Prize–winning Viral Justice, as well as Race After Technology and Peoples Science, Benjamin lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Review Benjamins roving narrative moves nimbly between topics to make her case (at one exemplary point she pauses her analysis of a documentary on creative writing programs for prisoners to note how it reminds her of a line from Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go: Could a creature without a human spirit create such heart-wrenching paintings?). Its a potent exhortation for society to point its dreams toward the collective good.-- "Publishers Weekly"Ruha Benjamin reminds us that in our collective imaginations we already have everything we need to make the world we want to live in. Imagination is a lovely volume with a meditation on the power of being human: we can dream, if we only believe that we can.--Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick: And Other Essays Details ISBN1324020970 Author Ruha Benjamin Pages 192 Series A Norton Short Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781324020974 Format Hardcover Subtitle A Manifesto Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2024-02-06 UK Release Date 2024-02-06 Audience General ISBN-10 1324020970 Publisher WW Norton & Co Publication Date 2024-03-19 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Illustrations 7 illustrations US Release Date 2024-03-19 DEWEY 153.3 AU Release Date 2024-03-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159139115;

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