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    Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3: Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide
    Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3: Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide
    Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3: Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide
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    Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3: Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide

    By Donald Gutierrez

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    Amador Publishers, LLC is proud to release Feeling the Unthinkable, Essays on Social Justice by Donald Gutierrez in a 4-volume collection of e-books for ease of reading and reference. Each of the four volumes follows exactly its corresponding Part in the print edition. Each e-volume is introduced with relevant excerpts from the Author's original Introduction to the consolidated print edition.

    In Volume 3 "Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide," the author proposes that "sympathetic awareness of the victims of state terrorism should make us realize that their fate could very possibly be ours some day, given the dynamics of concentration of power and wealth in our time, the sharply increasing class divides in the United States and globally, and the consequent need by rulers to preserve their ill-gotten estate."

    "Dr. Gutierrez's work is Zinn-esque. His quality and style of writing is both accessible and engaging. Dr. Gutierrez has written a book that is compassionate, comprehensive, and thought provoking. His writing on social injustice at an individual, institutional, state, and global level is alarming. Dr. Gutierrez provides real-world examples that vividly illustrate his claims and strengthen his arguments about systematic terrorism, torture, cruelty, greed, racism and genocide. In the process, the United States is not given a pass. Dr. Gutierrez' work, across the board, is brutally honest and well documented. His claim that democracy is under attack is spot-on and his cry for activism is necessary and timely. Students of social science, political science, international relations, and media studies will greatly benefit from his book. I look forward to sharing his work with both my colleagues and students." --Karen P. Burke, Ed.D, Assoc. Professor, Media Studies Department, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmador Publishers, LLC
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301878055
    Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3: Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide
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    Donald Gutierrez

    Donald Gutierrez was a member of the University of Notre Dame English Department faculty from 1968 to 1975, then joined the English Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. He retired from WNMU in 1994 and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Marlene Zander Gutierrez. He received a "New Mexico Eminent Scholar Award" in 1989.Gutierrez has published six books of literary criticism, two of which focus on D. H. Lawrence and and one on Kenneth Rexroth. Since retirement, he has published over fifty essays and reviews, most of which concern social justice and American state terrorism abroad.

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      Feeling the Unthinkable, Vol. 3 - Donald Gutierrez

      FEELING THE UNTHINKABLE

      Essays on Social Justice

      by Donald Gutierrez

      edited by Zelda Leah Gatuskin

      Collection Copyright © 2012 by Donald Gutierrez

      All essays used by permission of the author.

      Volume 3

      Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide

      published by

      AMADOR PUBLISHERS

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      To my wife-artist Marlene

      (April 1932 - August 2011)

      Cover Art: detail from

      Illuminating the Dark Side by Marlene Zander Gutierrez

      Collage and acrylic, 24.5x 40.5"

      Feeling the Unthinkable Volume 3

      Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide

      Contents

      Author's Preface

      About the E-Edition

      Introduction to Volume 3

      Chapt. 1. When Were You Last in Mexico? Ethnic Identity and a 1950s Bus Trip Through the South

      Chapt. 2. Attending College Must Be Free Again (For the Country's Own Good)

      Chapt. 3. Prep Schools and America's Ruling Class

      Chapt. 4. Review: Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps

      Chapt. 5. The New Electrical Meanspiritedness in America

      Chapt. 6. Review: Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in an Age of Crisis

      Chapt. 7. Review: Randall Robinson, Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land

      Chapt. 8. American-British Ethnic Cleansing in the Chagos Islands: The Tragedy of the Diego Garcian People

      Chapt. 9. Leveling the Hierarchy

      Chapt. 10. Review: John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World

      Chapt. 11. Systemic Greed: L. Dennis Kozlowski and Beyond

      Chapt. 12. American Presidents and Business Versus Community

      Bibliography

      …if way to the Better there be,it exacts a full look at the Worst.

      Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris: II

      Author's Preface

      The essays and reviews in this book were written during fifteen years of retirement beginning in 1994, a few of them before that year. All but one of them have been published in a variety of venues, and most of them in at least two or three different publications.

      Feeling the Unthinkable is not a scholarly study or an organically structured work. It is a collection consisting of essays and reviews and one memoir. Nevertheless, the various pieces are, I feel, sufficiently interrelated in subject and polemical stance to lend Feeling a certain unity of voice, tone and social-political humanist outlook. That unity is based on the implication that a revolution in sensibility is essential to changing and repairing the world, and that that revolution could be brought about by coming alive in our feeling states and imagination to the social evil abounding in the modern era, no little of it created by governments (certainly ours) and the elites they serve.

      We can think about the unthinkable, but feeling it is a challenge reaching to the depths of our being. Who knows what we become after that immersion into personal darkness. That is the ultimate challenge of Feeling the Unthinkable. [Donald Gutierrez, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2012]

      About the E-edition

      Amador Publishers, LLC is proud to release Feeling the Unthinkable, Essays on Social Justice by Donald Gutierrez in a 4-volume collection of e-books for ease of reading and reference. Each of the four volumes follows exactly its corresponding Part in the print edition (that is, Volume 1 has the same articles in the same order as Part I; Volume 2 as Part II, etc.). However, the chapter numbers have been changed in Volumes 2, 3, and 4 so that the first essay in each e-book is Chapter 1 and those that follow are numbered sequentially.

      The complete print edition Table of Contents with corresponding e-book volume and chapter numbers is available online: http://amadorbooks.com/books/xrpftu0.htm

      The complete Bibliography has been published at the end of all four e-volumes.

      Each e-volume is introduced with relevant excerpts from the Author's original Introduction to the consolidated print edition. This complete Introduction is also available online: http://amadorbooks.com/books/xrpftu1.htm

      The Afterword and other back matter are published at the end of Volume 4.

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the periodicals which previously published, in slightly different forms, the essays and reviews collected herein. Their credits appear at the end of each chapter.

      The print edition of Feeling the Unthinkable is available from Amador Publishers.

      Feeling the Unthinkable

      Introduction to E-edition Volume 3

      Business as Usual - Greed, Racism and Genocide

      This section of Feeling broaches issues of class, racism and greed in a variety of manifestations. It opens with an account of my experience of ethnic misidentification while traveling through the South in the 1950s. This journey underlined for me how racist perceptions can go the the root of one's - anyone's - being. Class is embodied in such essays as Why Attending College Should be Free and Prep Schools and the Ruling Class - two interrelated pieces. This section continues with the sense of class as genocidal racism in the far darker regions of a Nazi concentration camp. This is followed by an essay and a review of Christian Parenti's book, Lockdown America, on American prisons and penal injustice. Parenti's book in particular implies that society resolves superfluities and consequent frictions of class and race by putting disposable segments of the population - the lower and especially darker-skinned class for whom there is no or little work - in prison. Both pieces suggest in different ways that torture is a common feature of American prisons, whether in the form of solitary confinement stretching for years, the use of severely electrocuting devices on prisoners, prisoner rape of both sexes or sudden, incredibly savage beatings administered to key inmates by guard teams dressed in riot gear. Randall Robinson's book Quitting America: The Departure from America of a Black Man from His Native Land indicates one African- American's response to America's racist disposal of Blacks but, more effectively, projects a trenchant criticism of what the white race has done not only to Blacks but to all people of color.

      The essay about the aboriginal people (the Chagossians) on Diego Garcia island continues the theme of gross white mistreatment of non-whites, but also ties in with the dominant themes in crack investigative journalist John Pilger's powerful book The New Rulers of the World: the violent presence of and financial domination by Western imperialism throughout the world. This imperialism, emblematic of ungovernable greed, is exhibited domestically in the case of Tyco International CEO Dennis Kozlowski who, along with an associate, cheated his company out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The essays Leveling the Hierarchy and, particularly, American Presidents and Business Versus Community and Competition, Cooperation and ‘Us' Versus ‘Them,' suggest resistance to the vectors of avarice and class privilege in the form of the libertarian, communitarian transformation of society.

      A final consideration glimmers here: that sympathetic awareness of the victims of state terrorism should make us realize that their fate could very possibly be ours some day, given the dynamics of concentration of power and wealth in our time, the sharply increasing class divides in the United States and globally, and the consequent need by rulers to preserve their ill-gotten estate. The last poignant lines of William Carlos Williams's poem The Yachts seems appropriate to our age of high-financed-induced mass destitution:

      …the horror

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