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This is a wonderful and insightful study that instantaneously establishes Joel Wendland as a leader in the field. -- Gerald Horne, University of Houston In The Collectivity of Life Joel Wendland offers a brilliant new take on the crucial American myth of individual self-fashioning. He demonstrates how attending to material spaces allows us to see that so-called self-made people always emerge from a complex, collective process embedded in particular places and communities. In contrast to the statistically disproven claims that any individual can make it, Wendland shows how social movement organizers like Septima Clark, Ella Baker and Cesar Chavez model leadership empowered not by personal ambition or exceptional skill, but by rich connection to the collective power of ordinary folks. It is that collective striving for social and economic justice, not emulation of the lucky few successes who pretend to have made it on their own, that will provide the antidote to the vicious income inequality afflicting the US and most of the world today. -- T.V. Reed, Washington State University

This is a wonderful and insightful study that instantaneously establishes Joel Wendland as a leader in the field. -- Gerald Horne, University of Houston

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Joel Wendland is assistant professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University.

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