This report deals with the book by: Hartmann, Thom. Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
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Many scholars, argued that racist ideology and discourse develops in the context of a violent/domination relationship between groups. In the context of a violent relationship, the dominating group develops stereotypes and racist discourses that rationalize its violence against the subordinated group. These racist discourses promote, and manifest as, institutionalized racism that degrades the material conditions of the subordinated group.
In the book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Hartmann suggests that racism, sexism, and ways of looking at the world that legitimates ecological destruction are part of a dominator mentality that began arising and spreading as human beings shifted from tribal life to city/state life.
1) Explain Hartmann?s argument connecting the ?younger culture? mentality/way of life to the rise of violence between groups of people (e.g. ?races? and genders) and againstNature.
2) At the end of Hartmann?s book he presents his ideas for solutions to the human cultural/ecological crisis. Summarize and critique at least two of Hartmann?s solutions.
3) Finally, develop and describe a personal way of thought (a mentality, a level of consciousness, a ?story? about who we are and why we are here, and how we are related to each other and other forms of life) that, if taken up by a critical mass of people, could resolve the human crisis that Hartmann describes.
