God's Waiting Room

Racial Reckoning at Life's End

Casey Golomski (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4061-4 (ISBN)

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Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.

Course or Book Club Reading and Discussion Guide (https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/rup-wp-v2/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/04135941/gods-waiting-room_reading-questions.pdf)

For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.

CASEY GOLOMSKI is an associate professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. He is the author of Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.

Preface
The Road
Waiting
Angel
Heartsore
Presents
Andrew
Diversity
Bethal
Safari
Goodness
Jokers
Yvonne
God
Mama Zulu
Security
Noeline
The Circle
Confessions
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Global Perspectives on Aging
Zusatzinfo	11 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4061-6 / 1978840616
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4061-4 / 9781978840614
Zustand	Neuware