Reclaiming Humanity: Revolutionary Pathways to Beloved Community
Autor Beth Royen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2026
At the place where personal identity and institutional oppression meet there lie reasons beyond morality for all people, especially those with apparent privilege, to resist inequities based in race, gender, class or generation. Reclaiming Humanity explores the psychological and political ways modern individuals become dehumanized, even as we are recruited into systems that dehumanize others. Through stories of personal exploration and learning, the book delves into dynamics by which we consent to systems that deprive us of well-being. Reclaiming Humanity then moves beyond understanding how profoundly we've lost the art of community connection to open up creative visions of a truly humane social order. Through these narratives and explorations, the work discusses practical directions for mediators, activists, and other seekers after justice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216374787
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Association for Conflict Resolution
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Association for Conflict Resolution
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
1. Introduction: Divisions at the Junction of Self and Society
Part One: Becoming Human in a Dehumanizing Culture
2. Identity: Who Am I? Who Are You? Where Do I Fit
3. Masculinity, Violence and Racism: How Men Internalize Patriarchy
4. Generational Roles and Immigration: How Women Internalize Patriarchy
5. Worldviews: Individualism and Injustice
6. Psychiatrizing Discontent: Soft Landings on Hard Couches
7. Ways of Thinking: In Twos, Tens, or Rainbows
8. Politicizing Empathy: Alienation and Suffering
Part Two: Institutions and Dehumanization
9. Religion: And Its Mystifications
10. Divide and Rule: Education, Still Segregated After All These Years
11. Multicultural Workplaces: Conflicts Both Interpersonal and Systemic
12. Diversity and Other Misnomers: What's the Matter with DEI?
13. The Classless Society: Healthcare: What the Body Knows
Part Three: Building Connection to Reclaim Humanity
14. How Change Happens: When We're Not Even Looking
15. Reclaiming Vision, Exercising Agency: Creating a Beloved Multicultural Community
Appendix 1: Review of Concepts
Appendix 2: The Making of a Radical
Bibliography
End Notes
Index
About the Author
Part One: Becoming Human in a Dehumanizing Culture
2. Identity: Who Am I? Who Are You? Where Do I Fit
3. Masculinity, Violence and Racism: How Men Internalize Patriarchy
4. Generational Roles and Immigration: How Women Internalize Patriarchy
5. Worldviews: Individualism and Injustice
6. Psychiatrizing Discontent: Soft Landings on Hard Couches
7. Ways of Thinking: In Twos, Tens, or Rainbows
8. Politicizing Empathy: Alienation and Suffering
Part Two: Institutions and Dehumanization
9. Religion: And Its Mystifications
10. Divide and Rule: Education, Still Segregated After All These Years
11. Multicultural Workplaces: Conflicts Both Interpersonal and Systemic
12. Diversity and Other Misnomers: What's the Matter with DEI?
13. The Classless Society: Healthcare: What the Body Knows
Part Three: Building Connection to Reclaim Humanity
14. How Change Happens: When We're Not Even Looking
15. Reclaiming Vision, Exercising Agency: Creating a Beloved Multicultural Community
Appendix 1: Review of Concepts
Appendix 2: The Making of a Radical
Bibliography
End Notes
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
This book is a profound call to action for leaders to build more resilient, innovative, and truly human organizations. Roy's core thesis is a strategic imperative for the modern age: "progress for any one group of people cannot be made without progress for everyone." She challenges us to move beyond the zero-sum thinking that so often derails DEI and change management efforts, embracing a powerful strategy of "mutuality." Reclaiming Humanity is an essential, transformative read for any leader, manager, or citizen seeking to navigate the divisions of our time and build a more just, connected, and prosperous future for all.
In Reclaiming Humanity, Beth Roy analyzes the complex, makes it intelligible, and prescribes an agenda of action to change the status quo so we can live in a society that 'values the human heart and spirit.[and] the love of nature without which none of us will long survive.' For an increasingly dismal world she offers thoughtful analysis and careful prescription.
Reclaiming Humanity by Dr. Beth Roy should be an indispensable citizens field manual for anyone struggling to understand how and why our country has all but lost the ability to value, care about, and provide for the basic needs of its richly diverse population. The reality of our diversity cannot be denied despite aggressive efforts to do so. In a concise and story filled narrative, Beth Roy's book provides the detailed knowledge and clarity of the structural and relationship dynamics that we urgently need to know and understand in order to take action as we empower ourselves in response to current government policy.
This is a wonderful book. Beth Roy first shares intimately acquired evidence of our dehumanizing culture, including patriarchy, identities, racism, and individualism. Then she examines how many institutions are dehumanizing. Finally, she radically argues that building connections can reclaim humanization. Yes, she does, convincingly. She shows how connecting can be liberating.
In Reclaiming Humanity, Beth Roy analyzes the complex, makes it intelligible, and prescribes an agenda of action to change the status quo so we can live in a society that 'values the human heart and spirit.[and] the love of nature without which none of us will long survive.' For an increasingly dismal world she offers thoughtful analysis and careful prescription.
Reclaiming Humanity by Dr. Beth Roy should be an indispensable citizens field manual for anyone struggling to understand how and why our country has all but lost the ability to value, care about, and provide for the basic needs of its richly diverse population. The reality of our diversity cannot be denied despite aggressive efforts to do so. In a concise and story filled narrative, Beth Roy's book provides the detailed knowledge and clarity of the structural and relationship dynamics that we urgently need to know and understand in order to take action as we empower ourselves in response to current government policy.
This is a wonderful book. Beth Roy first shares intimately acquired evidence of our dehumanizing culture, including patriarchy, identities, racism, and individualism. Then she examines how many institutions are dehumanizing. Finally, she radically argues that building connections can reclaim humanization. Yes, she does, convincingly. She shows how connecting can be liberating.