Jesus and the Disinherited

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In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the Gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. "Richly endowed. . . . It is the centerpiece of the black prophet-mystic's lifelong [work]." --Vincent Harding

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Victory in respecting personality.......2007-07-26

I tracked down Jesus and the Disinherited after reading Richard Lischer's fine study of Martin Luther King Jr, Preacher King. Howard Thurman, I had learned, was an influence on Martin Luther King Jr. A scholarly Christian reflecting on the African-American experience, he preached non-violence long before it was fashionable. As the back cover states, this is "an influential book whose message helped shape the civil rights movement and changed our nation's history for ever."
Thurman compares the situation of African-Americans to that of the Jews in the time of Jesus. He analyzes the psychological effects of oppression on individuals. He describes the strategies oppressed people adopt for survival based on fear, deception and hate. Fear teaches our body to avoid confrontation with a member of the dominant community, we use double talk so as not to attract negative attention, and our only possible response becomes hatred which keeps us from moral disintegration.
Jesus' call to love enemies was revolutionary. Genuine love must be a mutual recognition of the dominant and oppressed communities as human beings. Genuine love at an individual level (I hate all Asians, but this person I know to be a human being) may lead to an exceptionalism which does not remove the deep hatred of the others collectively.
Thurman concludes, "What, then, is the word of the religion of Jesus to those who stand with their backs against the wall? ... They must recognize fear, deception, hatred, each for what it is. Once having done this, they must learn how to destroy these or to render themselves immune to their domination." (p. 108)
The power of this book derives from Thurman's own experience of oppression and his analysis of Jesus' own experience of minority. It is not betrayal to love our enemies; it is a victory when the dominant and oppressed communities respect each other as equals.

Read this book!.......2007-01-09

Want to know the experience of an African American in America in the thirties and forties, the man who "discovered" Ghandi, went to India, and brought back his message, the man who then taught his students at Boston University School of Theology this message.

One of his students was Martin Luther King.

This short book should be bought, read, and shared.

Wisdom for the non-believer.......2000-04-07

Its is purported that Martin Luther King carried this book with him at all times, and upon reading these pages one can see immdiately that this book isn't just a tome of Christianity, but rather a blueprint for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. But in a larger sense this book is a guide for transcending the heartache and humiliation of modern life and renewing one's vision of a spirited public and personal life.

A great look at a follower of Christ.......1999-08-24

This book is a classic which deserves to be named that. It is one great look at the heart of a decent and kind man, who personally, I believe, saw the heart and mind of God, and wrote accordingly. In this book, we will not find the harsh and intolerant God of the conservative establishment, but the real and kind God of the New Testament. Here we find a Jesus who wants to talk to us, hug us and be our best friend. Yet, this Jesus also wants to defend the poor and at-risk. This is a radical look at a radical man and, to me, savior, Jesus Christ.

The thoughts from Thurman's books are great spritual energy........1999-08-10

Howard Thurman, book regarding Jesus and the Disinherited, gave a spirtual informative opinion about the downtrodden condition of any race of people regardless of color. The true existence of Christ should be viewed only as a subject matter instead of an object.

The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975

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The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975
Henry Kamen
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First of a fairly good trilogy
Read like a Traveller campaign
A quick read, somewhat unsatisfying
Good plot, bland characters and ify writing.

The Disinherited
Steve White
Manufacturer: Baen
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ASIN: 0671721941

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First of a fairly good trilogy.......2006-12-22

This is the first of a series of three space adventures, each of which can be read on its own or together as a trilogy. The very unusual thing about this trilogy is that each of the three books falls into a slightly different genre

The full series is

The Disinherited (Space Opera & first contact)
Legacy (Time Travel)
Debt of Ages (Alternative History)

Steve White started out his writing career with the "Starfire" books which he co-authored with David Weber. Both writers then branched out on their own, and both developed enormously as a result: "The Disinherited" was the first published novel which Steve White wrote on his own. In my opinion it's not at all bad, but it isn't in the same league as some of his more recent work.

"The Disinherited" was written a couple of years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and assumes that in the following two generations America, and the rest of the world has gradually begun to succumb to an extreme form of political correctness combined with sophisticated antisemitism.

Perhaps White slightly overdoes the stupidity of his villains here: the "Social Justice Party" which is expected to win the next US elections has policies such as to guarantee every citizen an above-average income. (Duh!) They also plan to shut down the international space project to terraform Mars and send all its personnel to re-education camps.

Then one of the spaceships working on that project is contacted by visitors from another star. The good news is that these visitors, the Raehaniv, are friendly: the bad news is that their home world is about to be attacked by a species called the Korvaasha, who are not.

The Korvaasha have a huge and very powerful empire, and intend to conquer the entire universe: just as the Social Justice party are cartoonishly incompetent politicians, the Korvasha are a cartoonishly horrible alien threat.

Rather than face a re-education camp back home and sitting around waiting for Earth to be discovered and conquered by the Korvaasha, some of Earth's astronauts decide to help take the battle to the Korvaasha - but in the process they become the Disinherited.

The story contains a lot of highly implausible elements, although some of them are explained towards the end of this book, and one or two more in the sequel, "Legacy."

Overall this is a fairly good book, worth a read if you like space opera.

Read like a Traveller campaign.......2003-09-14

I'm a fan of the Classic SF RPG Traveller. I'm betting that the author is a Traveller fan too. There were just too many concepts and items straight from the game. Tailored Vac Suits, Battle Dress, Stutterwarp (ok that's 2300, but close enough), and more.

This made the book more fun for me. Non-Traveller SF fans should like it as well.

A quick read, somewhat unsatisfying.......1999-11-09

I had fun reading this book as it moved along a decent pace( nothing I hate worse than authors that pour in more detail than story). However, this "story" lacked a lead character that the reader felt strongly about. The concepts, like the single origin for both the Terrans and Raehanivs was a neat subplot that was sort of glossed over. I wished the author would've explored that angle more. The Korvassha were as nasty an enemy as any Niven or Pournelle had come up with. I kept expecting a counterattack but the book just ended. This book had enough going for it to have gone another 100 pages. Maybe there is a sequel?

Good plot, bland characters and ify writing........1998-06-18

Steve White is the coathor of the Starfire series of Books, which i happen to love. Having read all of D. Webers current books (the other author of the Starfire books) I turned to the works of White to kill some time during summer break. It doesn't take long to realize that Weber is a far superior author. Steve White lacks the talent to make characters seem real...this book also lacked the furious pace so typical of Starfire , but not all is bad. This book has an interesting plot and I personally intend to read the seuquels just to figure out what the heck is the deal with humans from other worlds and other whatnot. If you like Weber, read this. If you can only read one book, skip it.

Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893

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Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893
Robert Francis Engs
Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press
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LEGACY OF THE DISINHERITED (Latin)
Tom Salman
Manufacturer: Purdue University Press
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Popular culture tends to simultaneously lose and gain in the era of globalization. The singularity and internal self-reproduction of popular cultures have dwindled, but at the same time their vibrancy and dynamics have thrived and multiplied. This volume covers subjects ranging from the relations between Indians and Spaniards in Colonial Mexico, through the contemporary statures of popular cultures of the Chilean urban poor, the Brazilian traditionalists, and the Bahian black youth, to the fate of commercialized Mexican handicraft.

The Soon-To-Be-Disinherited Wife (Silhouette Desire)

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Romantic, sexy, a very good read.

The Soon-To-Be-Disinherited Wife (Silhouette Desire)
Jennifer Greene
Manufacturer: Silhouette
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ASIN: 0373767315

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Romantic, sexy, a very good read........2006-07-06

This book is the second installment for Silhouette Desire continuity series Secret Lives of Society Wives. Emma Dearborn is soon to be married with fiance Reed kelly. They share an easy relationship, both being pushed to marry by their respective families. However, they lack lust and passion.

Emma was not aware of this until her highschool sweetheart(Garret)comes back to her hometown to solve a family problem. The chemistry is there from the beginning, even stronger than many years ago. Now Emma realizes that her engagement can not go on, and she ends the relationship with Reed.

Now Emma faces another problem, if she is married by her 30th b-day, she is going to loose a millions worth fortune. Is Garret ready to make a longterm commintment? See for yourself.

I loved the story for its original plot. I read it really quick. The story is really romantic and sensual. In the background floats the mistery of the stolen journals, the scandals of the society, including blackmail.

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One of the best Star Trek novels I have read...
Better than average.
Slow in places but generally good
Would be better if interesting
Learn more about Ensign Chekov and Commodore Wesley

The Disinherited (Star Trek, Book 59)
Peter David , Michael Jan Friedman , and Robert Greenberger
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The Disinherited

Gamma Xaridian--a peaceful Federation research colony that becomes the third Federation world to suffer a brutal attack athe handsof a mysterious alien fleet. With Lt. Uhura gone on an important mission of her own, Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise™ are dispatched to investigate the attacks, only to find the planets completely devastated.

When another nearby colony is attacked, the U.S.S. Enterprise is ready and encounters a fleet of quick, small and deadly ships. Though Kirk and his crew manage to turn the raiders away, the U.S.S, Enterprise is severly damaged and the aliens escape.

As Kirk and his crew prepare for their next encounter with the raiders, Mr. Spock makes a startling discovery about the purpose behind the alien attacks -- a purpose that, if realized, could have deadly consequences for the Federation and the U.S.S Enterprise...

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Dispatched to investigate attacks on peaceful Federation planets by a mysterious alien fleet, Kirk and his crew find the planets completely devastated. As the Enterprise prepares to launch its counterattack, Spock makes a discovery that could have deadly consequences for the Federation and the Enterprise.

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One of the best Star Trek novels I have read..........2004-07-04

An excellent Star Trek novel. First and foremost a really good plot and storyline but what makes this novel special is its all encompassing sweep. Unfortunate but true, a lot of Star Trek novels tend to focus on a few characters with the remainder of the cast serving largely as "window dressing" for the duration of the tale. While this novel tends to focus on Chekov all of the remaining members of the cast (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Scotty, and Uhura) as well as many other "irregular" members of the crew (Martine, Giotto, Kyle, Palmer) are well represented as well. Three great authors worked on this novel and it shows. It is literally steeped in Star Trek lore and references that had even a die-hard fan going back to "check the tape." The inclusion of Commodore Wesley & Co. and the Lexington was also a great addition. I would add that the humor and interplay between characters was some of the best I've ever encountered. My only complaint was the lingering unsolved mystery involving Security Chief Giotto's uncanny resemblance to Commodore Wesley...

Better than average........2004-03-27

I've read well over 100 Star Trek novels; this one is not a standout that I would recommend to someone if they wanted ten recommendations (or even twenty), but it is solid and enjoyable. Not surprisingly, given who the authors are, it is well-written, and (perhaps surprisingly,) the collaboration is pretty seamless; I thought that I would recognize each individual's writing style, and be able to tell who contributed what, but that was not the case other than a few places where I definitely recognized Peter David's sense of humor.

Slow in places but generally good.......2004-01-12

This is a decidedly unusually Original Series book in that it involves one of the crew working on another Federation starship. That section, Uhura's, is the rather slow section of the book. It is a combination of investigation and personal drama. The whole section is not very well written. The Kirk and Chekov stories on the Enterprise are much more interesting. The Chekov story is a drama, and is fairly well written and has a good characterisation of Chekov. The Kirk story, the main one for the Enterprise, is a combination of investigation and combat. The combat scenes are quite well done. For the rest of it, the depiction of the characters is reasonably good. The dialogue for this section is generally quite good, and there are several really good scenes. I seem to have made this book out as less satisfying than I actually find it. It is good entertainment, with the majority of the book more than making up for the slow pace of Uhura's section. It's just a little too obvious that different authors wrote different sections of the text.

Would be better if interesting.......2002-12-05

The story told in this book is rather dull and boring. I had hoped for much better. It also failed one of my major criteria for a novel; it was never edited. At various points throughout the book Sulu is refered to as the navigator or helmsman. On particular scene has Uhura, seeing Chekov look at her, ponder about the navigator. The very next paragraph she is now ponder about the navigator (Sulu). Very annoying. In order to make this book more enjoyable I found myself visualizing very colorful "sign language" by various character. Sign language plays an important part in the story.

Overall, I was very disappointed in this book.

Learn more about Ensign Chekov and Commodore Wesley.......2002-09-29

Books written by three authors tend to be either bland or disjointed. Bland because arguments over the story line led to a mushy compromise or disjointed as some of each authors ideas were incorporated into the book. Neither is the case here. This is a book in the finest tradition of the Star Trek model. The new characters are well drawn and we get to see a side of Commodore Wesley that was not apparent in the original series. Chronologically, the story also takes place shortly after Chekov first arrives on the Enterprise, and a subplot follows his first days on the Enterprise where he commits some errors of enthusiasm.
The book begins with devastating attacks being carried out on Federation colonies. At first the only point of the attacks appears to be the destruction of Federation sites. However, after a great deal of investigation, the purpose turns out to be much more sinister. The Enterprise engages the raiders and just manages to defeat them after learning of their origins.
This is one of the better books in the Star Trek series and I found it difficult to put it down.

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"We were raised in a convent, then released into Hollywood"
too bad

The Disinherited : A Novel
Han Ong
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ASIN: B000F3UNR2

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Manila, 2000. Forty-four-year-old Roger Caracera returns to his birthplace after nearly three decades in the United States. He has come to bury the corrupt, charismatic head of the family sugar dynasty: his estranged father, Jesus. To Caracera's chagrin and pleasure, he is now viewed by his countrymen as the representative American; a local tabloid even refers to him as a General Douglas MacArthur look-alike. And when his father's will is read, Caracera is stunned to discover that he has been left half a million dollars.

Unable to live with this burdensome inheritance, he decides to give his money away. But who among the millions of needy Filipinos is he to focus on?

Traversing high and low life, societies rank and respectable, and with a cast of characters that includes a slum-dwelling boy hustler, a middle-aged American pederast, a rising Filipino tennis player, a calculating society matron, and a Peace Corps worker turned trophy wife, The Disinherited is an incisive and illuminating exploration of the impulse to do good in the world and the paradoxical harm brought on by generosity.

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"We were raised in a convent, then released into Hollywood".......2006-01-02

When Roger Caracera returns to the Philippines for his father's funeral, he gets more than he bargained for. Although never very close to the wealthy sugar magnate, Jesus Caracera, Roger is chosen as the chief inheritor to the old patriarch's immense fortune, giving him a tidy sum of $500,000, perhaps in an effort for Roger to reestablish a connection with his birthplace.

Roger has had an uneasy relationship with his homeland. More American than Philippino, Roger has long since rejected much of his restrictive, conservative upbringing, preferring to adopt the freewheeling "western ways." Now living in New York City and teaching writing at Columbia University, his return to Manila is viewed with suspicion and a certain chagrin by his older and cynical uncles and aunts.

For the Caracera family has been hiding a dark secret: Apparently Roger's Uncle Eustacio Caracera was gay and had willed a sizeable sum to Pitik Sindit, a child whore; a young, poor prostitute with whom he had fallen in love with. Shamed by his brothers and sisters, Eustacio had sequestered himself from his own immediate family, undertaking a willed ostracism, a careful quiet mutiny.

Annoyed that his family tried to derail Pitik's rightful inheritance, and full of guilt over his family's feudal wealth, Roger decides to track him down as well to give him his rightful bequest. While his relatives begin to view him as the "unearther, the burrower, and the formenter of old and new troubles," Roger comes to believe that he wants to leave some kind of signature behind, his actions reflecting a bedrock of selflessness.

Roger's journey leads him into the midst of Manila's most horrible slums as he witnesses the city's barely underground gay sex trade. Pitik also goes by the name of Blueboy, and works as exotic dancer; employed by a vicious Philippino woman who also pimps him, he's constantly tempted by a self confessed American pedophile. Roger, who considers himself a confirmed heterosexual, tries to go out of his way to save Pitik from this squalid life, but he finds himself forming a strange connection to this boy, who is simultaneously seductive and naïve, bit also manipulative, and quite repellent.

Author, Han Ong weaves an exotic tale of family intrigue, set against the background of a country where the demarcation between the rich and poor, the haves and the have-nots have never been more finely drawn. Roger starts out with good intentions, determined to end the line of what he sees as a decrepit dynasty, but he is constantly confounded by the world around him.

His Aunt Irene warns him, trying to set him straight, in her world "there are the servers and those whom are served." She possesses a ruthless, clear-eyed logic that aims to cut through the "liberal pretensions and foggy romanticism" of her nephew. This is reflected in Ong's own view of the Philippines, a world of elite tennis clubs serving as pockets of peace, members and patrons shielded from the cries of so much teaming poverty, "a country where money has a tactile presence; its power put plainly was supernatural."

Ong is notably quite damning of his homeland, hardly sympathetic to his country's plight, which continually excused it's poverty, its lack of education, its deplorable standard of living, and it's history of willing subjugation first to conquerors Spanish, Japanese, and American, and more recently to a string of mad despots.

The Disinherited is a big, sweeping saga; with the characters speaking in paragraphs and thinking in essays, long diatribes, the style reflecting this, deliberately convoluted and elaborate. The prose is studied, exquisite, and beautiful, as Ong steadily weaves a web of the Philippines, showcasing its history, class warfare, politics and cultural clashes; there's no doubt that the book is epic in tone and in theme.

In Roger, Ong has created a subtle and complicated character, caught up in the changing tides of his culture he's a man whose values are undoubtedly anchored in the West, but he still feels the ineffable pull of his birthplace, the old world with all it's chaos, corruption, poverty, and organized mayhem. Mike Leonard January 06.

too bad.......2005-01-05

I cant get through the book. Compared to fixer chao is just terrible, I am SO disappointed. I read the first 3 chapters and had no idea whats going on. I guess like everyone else in hollywood, success has spoiled this artist who I was once obsessed with after reading Fixer Chao. Moral of the story: Just because they come out with one good book doesn't mean you should run out and buy their next book. Han Ong, what were you thinking? Stylistically its out of control, you used to be so candid and honest and straightforward, now your words only confuse and depress me. I just cant recommend this book although Fixer Chao was the best book I read in 10 years, hands down.

Disinherited : the Lost Birthright of the American Indian

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Disinherited : the Lost Birthright of the American Indian
Dale, Van Every
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought

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The Plight of the West

Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
Erich Heller
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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ASIN: 0156261006

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Heller examines the sense of values embodied in the works of key German writers and thinkers from Goethe to Kafka, particularly the consciousness of life's depreciation.

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The Plight of the West.......2007-09-26

Nihilism flickers with its black fire throught out the pages of this book and godlessness attends it as Erich Heller attempts to provide a spiritual physiognomy for the age.

Goethe is the major figure of Heller's meditations and Nietzsche who tries to forge a new soul in a world where Goethe's project to head off rationalism and scientism has failed. Heller spends much useful time in explaining the reasons for Goethe's attempt to found an anti-newtonian science. Fittingly, the name of William Blake makes a brief appearance.

Goethe saw the inhuman dimensions of the scientific project and where it was going with its inevitable war on poetic language and the construction of humane truths.

Rilke and Yeats are also stars of the book, particularly Rilke who creates Nietzschean poetry, poetry that exalts a radical inwardness against a god-free world.

I cannot diagram in this review the myriads of ideas and observations that make this book, The Disinherited Mind, so relevant to our own story. Erich Heller was one of the great titan critics of a century full of so many - Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and so many more. Heller read literature within a massive scope of historical awareness. His exegis is never dull but always as pertinent and relevant as the details in great adventure fiction.

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