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Dignity : seeking respect in back row America / by Arnade, Chris,author,photographer.(CARDINAL)785374;
"Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported accounts cut through today's clickbait media headlines and indict the elitists who misunderstood poverty and addiction in America for decades. After abandoning his Wall Street career, Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens and McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve. As Takeesha, a woman in the Bronx, told Arnade, she wants to be seen she sees herself: "a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind"--"After abandoning his Wall Street career, Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx, spending years interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, hanging out in drug dens and McDonald's in the South Bronx. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography"--
Subjects: Poverty; Poor; Drug addiction; Homelessness;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Finding dignity / by Darden, J. Marie.(CARDINAL)486582;
Subjects: Fiction.; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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With dignity : the search for Medicare and Medicaid / by David, Sheri I.(CARDINAL)178492;
Bibliography: pages 181-187.1350L
Subjects: Medicare; Medicaid;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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March for dignity [videorecording] / by Eames, John,film director.; Tabagari, Giorgi,on-screen participant.; Dreamscape Media,publisher.(CARDINAL)347553;
Giorgi Tabagari.In this feature documentary, a small group of LGBTI+ activists in Georgia face overwhelming opposition as they attempt to conduct the first Pride march in the country.DVD, widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Gay pride parades; Sexual minorities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Economic dignity / by Sperling, Gene B.,author.;
"When Gene Sperling was in charge of coordinating the shaping and execution of the US government's economic policy in the Obama White House, he found himself surprised and dismayed when serious people in Washington worried out loud to him that the Obama focus on health care was a distraction because it was "not focused on the economy." How, he asked, was millions of Americans' fear that they were a single pink slip or a loved one's serious illness away from financial ruin somehow not considered an economic issue? To him, it was just one more example of a more profound truth he witnessed in his many years in our national economic debate: that when it comes to America's economic policy, there is too little focus on what the end goal should be. Too often, he found that our economic debate confused ends and means; that we measured economic success by metrics like GDP instead of whether the economy was succeeding in lifting up the sense of meaning, purpose, fulfillment, and security of people. Too often, he found debates framed by old divisions or pro-market ideology that increasingly failed to capture whether economic policy was fostering exploitation, economic insecurity, and disillusionment that were too often invisible within our current framework. Now more than ever, at a moment when the very capacity of modern capitalism to avoid accelerating inequality, a hollowed-out middle class, and structural poverty is being questioned, we need to step back and reflect on our ultimate goals. Economic Dignity is Sperling's effort to do just that - to frame our thinking about the way forward in a time of wrenching economic change. His argument combines moral and intellectual seriousness with actual high-level policy experience. Economic dignity, Sperling maintains, can be seen as resting on three pillars. The first: the capacity to care for family without economic deprivation denying people the capacity to experience its greatest joys - the birth of one's children, the companionship of a loving partner, the love of family and friends, the fulfillment that comes from providing. The second: the right to the pursuit of potential and purpose, including the right to first and second chances - the right to a life of active striving. The third: economic participation with respect and without domination and humiliation. All three pillars are rooted in the highest and most noble values of the American project. But getting there is the rub, and in Economic Dignity, Sperling offers paths that policymakers and citizens can follow for years to come. As he puts it, if you live in times when major steps forward are needed, it is important to be clear on your destination - or at least to know the North Star that is guiding you. His answer, in two words, is economic dignity"--Introduction -- Defining dignity -- The three pillars of economic dignity -- Governments, markets, and change -- Work and dignity -- Worker power and worker potential.
Subjects: Income distribution;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Dignity / Hilary Duff by Duff, Hilary.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Discipline with dignity / by Curwin, Richard L.,1944-(CARDINAL)525920; Mendler, Allen N.(CARDINAL)504200; Mendler, Allen N.Taking charge in the classroom.;
Bibliography: pages 259-267.
Subjects: Problem children; School discipline.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black dignity : the struggle against domination / by Lloyd, Vincent W.,1982-author.(CARDINAL)859732;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Everything Black -- Black rage -- Black love -- Black family -- Black futures -- Black magic -- I believe in the revolution -- Afterword : how to live with dignity."This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action. Previously in the West, dignity has been seen in two ways: as something inherent in one's station in life, whether acquired or conferred by birth; or more recently as an essential condition and right common to all of humanity. In what might be called a work of observational philosophy--an effort to describe the philosophy underlying the Black Lives Matter movement--Vincent W. Lloyd defines dignity as something performative, not an essential quality but an action: struggle against domination. Without struggle, there is no dignity. He defines anti-Blackness as an inescapable condition of American life, and the slave's struggle against the master as the "primal scene" of domination and resistance. Exploring the way Black writers such as Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Audre Lorde have dealt with themes such as Black rage, Black love, and Black magic, Lloyd posits that Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and, more audaciously, that Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy."--
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Black race.; Philosophy, Black.; Dignity.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Design for dignity : studies in accessibility / by Lebovich, William L.(CARDINAL)176939;
"Information sources": pages 241-246.
Subjects: Barrier-free design;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Death and dignity : making choices and taking charge / by Quill, Timothy E.(CARDINAL)374512;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
Subjects: Assisted suicide.; Terminal care.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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