Chapter Numbers & Titles
1. A General History
2. Untitled
3. Family Tree
4. The Tree House
5. Sophia & Allie
6. In Contrast
7. Morning of
8. Johnie’s Story
9. The Mission
10. T M: Secrets Revealed 1. A Sad Day
12. A S D: Truths Told
13. Allie’s Story
14. Sophia’s Education
15. The Interview
16. Pan Terra
17. New Beginning
18. Lucas’s Story
19. Right of Passage
20. Lost then Found
21. The End (for now)
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Copyright Date: 4/13/2009
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Intoductory Pages
Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills (1916-1959)
❧The sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of self-consciousness.
❧. . . is the idea that [people] can understand [their] own experience and gauge [their] own fate. By the fact [that they are] living [they] contribute, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as [they] are made by society and by its historical push and shove.
❧ . . . enables us to grasp history and biography, the relations between the two within society; the capacity to shift from one perspective to another from the political to the psychological.
❧ . . . it is by means of the sociological imagination that [people] now hope to grasp what is going on in the world and to understand what is happening in [themselves] . . . within society.
White Man’s Gifts
1,2,3
Firewater was white man’s gift
4,5,6
Indians gave it back to him
7, 8, 9
Gambling was white man’s gift
10, 11, 12
Indians took it right from him
13, 14, 15
White man’s gift came back to him
16, 17, 18
To bite him on the rear-end
19, 20, 21
Indians happy once again
Children’s jump rope chant (circa 2100)
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