This is a story about coming of age in a time of social unrest, economic uncertainty, increasing vitriol and political upheaval. Beginning nine months after the January 6th insurrection and ending several years later, this book is part fact, and part speculative fiction. It is a book about what has been, what might have been and what still could be. It is a story about college students who come together to address White Nationalism and cult-like autocracy and to do something about it.
The main character and protagonist is a young woman named Lisa Aiyana Bomani, a mixed-race college student. Along with her friends, Lisa takes up the cause of confrontation against those who seek to impose their views on others, while reconciling with those having legitimate grievances and an open mind for honest discussion and debate. The main setting for this book is a fictional college in Upstate New York, Hillmont College. As the story begins, Lisa is in her junior year.
Lisa's paternal grandmother, her beloved AksÓtha, had a significant role in raising her. As a part of that rearing, her grandmother, a self-educated avid reader, stimulated and supplemented Lisa's education with a mixture of Native American, European and African philosophy.
As Lisa learned from her grandmother, humanistic culture starts with community and the benefits that accrue from communal interconnectedness and mutuality. Community serves as the nurturer of self-actualization and provides an enabling platform, the backstop, and the reinforcing strength to allow us to interact productively with those outside our group. Without community and its role as facilitator of personal development as well as propagator of simultaneous and inter-dependent individuality and social unity, we are little more than isolated and vulnerable objects of marginalization, exploitation, and obsolescence.
In this book we accompany Lisa on her journey as she confronts challenges particular to her generation. She is of a generation where the impact of decades of alienation, isolation, corporate hegemony, environmental degradation, declining income, wealth inequality and racism converge to threaten humanistic ideals and the promise of fulfillment of those ideals. On her journey, we meet Christopher, a well-meaning but somewhat naive idealist who grew up in a sheltered environment of the white suburbs of New York. Maria, who comes from a Puerto Rican background, early on becomes Lisa's most trusted partner. Maria and Lisa share a common bond with their respective grandmothers who instilled pride, resilience and determination in their lives and their endeavors. Professor Gladson becomes a guiding force, educator, and mentor to the group. Afua, a budding Black Feminist, helps keep their collective work on track and on principle. Abner Snopesi, a play on William Faulkner's Abner Snopes, demonstrates that people of substance with legitimate grievances are reachable and empathy is possible when self-interest is joined with fact-based complementary collective concerns and interests.
To discover the ways of their enemies, the group attends White nationalist rallies, marches, book burnings and a conference. Throughout, although never explicitly expressing it, these young leaders of tomorrow recognize that to effectively confront the challenges they face in the time of their coming of age, they will have to mature and gain political sophistication long before such sophistication should have been necessary. As the story unfolds, we see they are up to the task.
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The main character and protagonist is a young woman named Lisa Aiyana Bomani, a mixed-race college student. Along with her friends, Lisa takes up the cause of confrontation against those who seek to impose their views on others, while reconciling with those having legitimate grievances and an open mind for honest discussion and debate. The main setting for this book is a fictional college in Upstate New York, Hillmont College. As the story begins, Lisa is in her junior year.
Lisa's paternal grandmother, her beloved AksÓtha, had a significant role in raising her. As a part of that rearing, her grandmother, a self-educated avid reader, stimulated and supplemented Lisa's education with a mixture of Native American, European and African philosophy.
As Lisa learned from her grandmother, humanistic culture starts with community and the benefits that accrue from communal interconnectedness and mutuality. Community serves as the nurturer of self-actualization and provides an enabling platform, the backstop, and the reinforcing strength to allow us to interact productively with those outside our group. Without community and its role as facilitator of personal development as well as propagator of simultaneous and inter-dependent individuality and social unity, we are little more than isolated and vulnerable objects of marginalization, exploitation, and obsolescence.
In this book we accompany Lisa on her journey as she confronts challenges particular to her generation. She is of a generation where the impact of decades of alienation, isolation, corporate hegemony, environmental degradation, declining income, wealth inequality and racism converge to threaten humanistic ideals and the promise of fulfillment of those ideals. On her journey, we meet Christopher, a well-meaning but somewhat naive idealist who grew up in a sheltered environment of the white suburbs of New York. Maria, who comes from a Puerto Rican background, early on becomes Lisa's most trusted partner. Maria and Lisa share a common bond with their respective grandmothers who instilled pride, resilience and determination in their lives and their endeavors. Professor Gladson becomes a guiding force, educator, and mentor to the group. Afua, a budding Black Feminist, helps keep their collective work on track and on principle. Abner Snopesi, a play on William Faulkner's Abner Snopes, demonstrates that people of substance with legitimate grievances are reachable and empathy is possible when self-interest is joined with fact-based complementary collective concerns and interests.
To discover the ways of their enemies, the group attends White nationalist rallies, marches, book burnings and a conference. Throughout, although never explicitly expressing it, these young leaders of tomorrow recognize that to effectively confront the challenges they face in the time of their coming of age, they will have to mature and gain political sophistication long before such sophistication should have been necessary. As the story unfolds, we see they are up to the task.
Coming of Age In An Era Of Political Apostasy
This is a story about coming of age in a time of social unrest, economic uncertainty, increasing vitriol and political upheaval. Beginning nine months after the January 6th insurrection and ending several years later, this book is part fact, and part speculative fiction. It is a book about what has been, what might have been and what still could be. It is a story about college students who come together to address White Nationalism and cult-like autocracy and to do something about it.
The main character and protagonist is a young woman named Lisa Aiyana Bomani, a mixed-race college student. Along with her friends, Lisa takes up the cause of confrontation against those who seek to impose their views on others, while reconciling with those having legitimate grievances and an open mind for honest discussion and debate. The main setting for this book is a fictional college in Upstate New York, Hillmont College. As the story begins, Lisa is in her junior year.
Lisa's paternal grandmother, her beloved AksÓtha, had a significant role in raising her. As a part of that rearing, her grandmother, a self-educated avid reader, stimulated and supplemented Lisa's education with a mixture of Native American, European and African philosophy.
As Lisa learned from her grandmother, humanistic culture starts with community and the benefits that accrue from communal interconnectedness and mutuality. Community serves as the nurturer of self-actualization and provides an enabling platform, the backstop, and the reinforcing strength to allow us to interact productively with those outside our group. Without community and its role as facilitator of personal development as well as propagator of simultaneous and inter-dependent individuality and social unity, we are little more than isolated and vulnerable objects of marginalization, exploitation, and obsolescence.
In this book we accompany Lisa on her journey as she confronts challenges particular to her generation. She is of a generation where the impact of decades of alienation, isolation, corporate hegemony, environmental degradation, declining income, wealth inequality and racism converge to threaten humanistic ideals and the promise of fulfillment of those ideals. On her journey, we meet Christopher, a well-meaning but somewhat naive idealist who grew up in a sheltered environment of the white suburbs of New York. Maria, who comes from a Puerto Rican background, early on becomes Lisa's most trusted partner. Maria and Lisa share a common bond with their respective grandmothers who instilled pride, resilience and determination in their lives and their endeavors. Professor Gladson becomes a guiding force, educator, and mentor to the group. Afua, a budding Black Feminist, helps keep their collective work on track and on principle. Abner Snopesi, a play on William Faulkner's Abner Snopes, demonstrates that people of substance with legitimate grievances are reachable and empathy is possible when self-interest is joined with fact-based complementary collective concerns and interests.
To discover the ways of their enemies, the group attends White nationalist rallies, marches, book burnings and a conference. Throughout, although never explicitly expressing it, these young leaders of tomorrow recognize that to effectively confront the challenges they face in the time of their coming of age, they will have to mature and gain political sophistication long before such sophistication should have been necessary. As the story unfolds, we see they are up to the task.
The main character and protagonist is a young woman named Lisa Aiyana Bomani, a mixed-race college student. Along with her friends, Lisa takes up the cause of confrontation against those who seek to impose their views on others, while reconciling with those having legitimate grievances and an open mind for honest discussion and debate. The main setting for this book is a fictional college in Upstate New York, Hillmont College. As the story begins, Lisa is in her junior year.
Lisa's paternal grandmother, her beloved AksÓtha, had a significant role in raising her. As a part of that rearing, her grandmother, a self-educated avid reader, stimulated and supplemented Lisa's education with a mixture of Native American, European and African philosophy.
As Lisa learned from her grandmother, humanistic culture starts with community and the benefits that accrue from communal interconnectedness and mutuality. Community serves as the nurturer of self-actualization and provides an enabling platform, the backstop, and the reinforcing strength to allow us to interact productively with those outside our group. Without community and its role as facilitator of personal development as well as propagator of simultaneous and inter-dependent individuality and social unity, we are little more than isolated and vulnerable objects of marginalization, exploitation, and obsolescence.
In this book we accompany Lisa on her journey as she confronts challenges particular to her generation. She is of a generation where the impact of decades of alienation, isolation, corporate hegemony, environmental degradation, declining income, wealth inequality and racism converge to threaten humanistic ideals and the promise of fulfillment of those ideals. On her journey, we meet Christopher, a well-meaning but somewhat naive idealist who grew up in a sheltered environment of the white suburbs of New York. Maria, who comes from a Puerto Rican background, early on becomes Lisa's most trusted partner. Maria and Lisa share a common bond with their respective grandmothers who instilled pride, resilience and determination in their lives and their endeavors. Professor Gladson becomes a guiding force, educator, and mentor to the group. Afua, a budding Black Feminist, helps keep their collective work on track and on principle. Abner Snopesi, a play on William Faulkner's Abner Snopes, demonstrates that people of substance with legitimate grievances are reachable and empathy is possible when self-interest is joined with fact-based complementary collective concerns and interests.
To discover the ways of their enemies, the group attends White nationalist rallies, marches, book burnings and a conference. Throughout, although never explicitly expressing it, these young leaders of tomorrow recognize that to effectively confront the challenges they face in the time of their coming of age, they will have to mature and gain political sophistication long before such sophistication should have been necessary. As the story unfolds, we see they are up to the task.
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| BN ID: | 2940186163817 |
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| Publisher: | Harold DeRienzo |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2023 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 230 KB |
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