The Past In Our Lives
Part I. "In the Beginning": The Land
Life Preservers: The Birth and Growth of U.S. Movements for
Conservation and Ecology
Nuclear Power, Ltd.
Part II. "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" Racial and Ethnic
Pluralism
The Original Americans: The So-called Indians
Contributions by Disinherited Blacks
Why Don't They Speak English Like Everyone Else?
Part III. Sexual Diversity
The Longest Revolution: Female Equality
"We Are Everywhere": Gay Men and Lesbians
Part IV. The Eighth Day of Creation: Community
God Is on the Side of the Poor: Prophets and Saints for Our
Time
Will You Love Me When I'm Old and Gray? The Activist Elderly
Our Future from Our Past?
DAVID De LEON is Associate Professor of History at Howard University.
?Everything is Changing is well illustrated . . . DeLeon's writing
is interesting and vibrant. He holds the reader's attention by
forcing him/her to consider the issue under review. I would
encourage all scholars with an interest in the historical
perspective of contemporary social issues to read this monograph
and insist it find a place in their college/university
libraries.?-History
?Everything Is Changing may be disturbing to some; its themes are
controversial and current. De Leon (Howard University), who wrote
The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism
(CH, Sep'79), and coedited with Howard J. Erlich Reinventing
Anarchy: What Are Anarchist Thinking These Days? (1979) has
compiled a series of essays focusing upon the history of several
sociopolitical movements. A stimulating writer and a meticulous
researcher, De Leon presents topics that range from ecological
issues, racism, and sexual diversity, to the elderly as activists.
Accompanying each section of the book are timely drawings or, in
some instances, cartoons. There is also an up-to-date bibliography,
and there are addresses of "contemporary sources of information"
(including activist "political organizations") for the reader to
consult. De Leon, admitting that historians cannot be objective or
detached social observers, justifies his interpretation of past and
present by quoting E. H. Carr, who wrote "historians are a part of
history."?-Choice
"Everything is Changing is well illustrated . . . DeLeon's writing
is interesting and vibrant. He holds the reader's attention by
forcing him/her to consider the issue under review. I would
encourage all scholars with an interest in the historical
perspective of contemporary social issues to read this monograph
and insist it find a place in their college/university
libraries."-History
"Everything Is Changing may be disturbing to some; its themes are
controversial and current. De Leon (Howard University), who wrote
The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism
(CH, Sep'79), and coedited with Howard J. Erlich Reinventing
Anarchy: What Are Anarchist Thinking These Days? (1979) has
compiled a series of essays focusing upon the history of several
sociopolitical movements. A stimulating writer and a meticulous
researcher, De Leon presents topics that range from ecological
issues, racism, and sexual diversity, to the elderly as activists.
Accompanying each section of the book are timely drawings or, in
some instances, cartoons. There is also an up-to-date bibliography,
and there are addresses of "contemporary sources of information"
(including activist "political organizations") for the reader to
consult. De Leon, admitting that historians cannot be objective or
detached social observers, justifies his interpretation of past and
present by quoting E. H. Carr, who wrote "historians are a part of
history.""-Choice
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