Bøger af Joseph Rathgeber

Cops don't respond to calls on Stag Hill. Neither does the fire department. The Ramapough Lenape, a destabilized people-origins uncertain, debated and mythologized-are struggling to survive in the face of an ecological devastation visited upon them by the neighboring Ford plant, which has dumped paint sludge in abandoned mines for decades. The EPA hasn't delivered on its promise of a cleanup, and the woods in which they hunt and play are toxic.Exley DeGroat is an apathetic Ramapough teenager trying to define himself and his people, wrestling with the revenants of his past and the horrors of his present. Mixedbloods is a story of identity, of a cultural history under attack, and destructive-often violent-behavior. It documents a class struggle between the rich and poor, but also between the organic and the inorganic, and thus between the forces of life and the forces of death.

"These are normal lives. Children swallow teeth. Husbands masturbate into toilets. A Black man does field training with a white militia in the Pine Barrens. People protest the carceral system and loathe their siblings all the while. Urinary tract infections go painfully awry. Teenagers sealcoat suburban driveways. Salt therapy sessions culminate in paranoid mental breakdowns. E-cigarettes explode in the pockets of deadbeat dads. Employees labor even in their dreams. This is normal. This is how we live"--