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    Every Cook Can Govern: At Friendship and Kay Street
    Every Cook Can Govern: At Friendship and Kay Street
    Every Cook Can Govern: At Friendship and Kay Street
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    Every Cook Can Govern: At Friendship and Kay Street

    By Cynthia Hamilton

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    THE BOOK IS MY STORY BUT I WAS MOTIVATED TO WRITE AFTER MY MOTHER SURVIVED A BLOOD CLOT AND AN AUTOIMMUNE SKIN DISEASE AT 96. I HAVE RELIED ON NON-WESTERN MEDICINE THROUGHOUT MY ORDEAL. I RECOMMEND THAT WE IMBRACE ALTERNATIVES IN MEDICINE, HOME CARE AND HOUSING.

    MY WEBSTE IS http://www.cmhamilton.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781490717227
    Every Cook Can Govern: At Friendship and Kay Street
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    Cynthia Hamilton

    Cynthia Hamilton, Ph. D. is retired Professor Emeritus, University of Rhode Island where she was chair of African and African American Studies. She fancies herself a scholar/activist even though she has had multiple sclerosis for twenty years. She has had her Ph. D. for thirty years and has taught at several universities from California to Massachusetts. She studied and worked with C.L.R. James in the 1970’s, was a community organizer in the 1980’s, diagnosed with MS in the 1990’s. Her mother moved from California to Rhode Island to give her the last active years of her academic life. Her mother now has dementia and does not walk. They live together in Newport, Rhode Island, still working for change in their personal lives and the lives of others.

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      Every Cook Can Govern - Cynthia Hamilton

      Copyright 2013 Cynthia Hamilton.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-1721-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-1410-3 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-1722-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013918366

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction

      Historical Background

      How I Came To Love/Appreciate Community

      The Community We’ll Always Remember

      Greater Roxbury Neighborhood Authority (Grna)

      California State University (Cal State)

      Urban Restructuring And The Birth Of Ms

      The Left In La

      Moving To Rhode Island

      Mom

      Chapter 1

      Mom The Oldest Takes The Lead In The Days Before Dementia

      Dad

      Chapter 2

      Kristen And Her Sister

      Finding Someone Who Can Cook

      Anna

      Dorothy

      Chapter 3

      The Men Of Kay Street

      Lumas

      Mark

      Apollo

      Shane

      Chapter 4

      Another Autoimmune Disease

      Elaine And Silvia

      Hospice Care

      Chapter 5

      Alternatives

      Medicine

      Home Care

      Housing

      It Takes A Village

      Conclusion

      Bibliography

      About The Author

      Endnotes

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      PREFACE

      I t took me a long time to decide to write this book. It wasn’t until Mom beat the blood clot, and we got the upper hand on the autoimmune skin disease that I decided to write. In large part, the book is a tribute to my mother. It was she and my father who were selfless to the end. I never reached that stage. So this is a tribute to Mom and Dad.

      It is also an acknowledgment of my caregivers who were not direct beneficiaries of the civil rights movement like I had been. They remind me of the cost to the black community when so many of us left. There were serious costs—the population diminished. There was a place for developers to move in; drugs and crime could develop with no internal checks. These women (my health aids) were left behind and tried to maintain values and standards on their own, without husbands and supportive communities.

      The final objective of this book is to talk once again about what we must do to rebuild our communities. My years of disability resulted in my house becoming my community. Unlike other jobs where communities develop from within, the university prevents the collaboration and sharing so necessary for community. I guess that’s why I’ve spent my whole life trying to recreate community or looking for conditions that would facilitate it. After all, what happens to an activist on disability? All I could think of is Langston Hughes’s poem A Dream Deferred—does it wither and die?

      I fought disability (with my mother’s help) until 2007—fighting every step of the way. Doctors said, You’ll need to rest in the middle of the day . . . You may lose your voice . . . You won’t be able to write . . . Just make an X . . . Sell your house, leave your job . . . If it hadn’t been for those years of activism, I wouldn’t have made it. I had learned we struggle one day at a time, from one generation to the next.¹ Even my mother insisted You cannot stop, you’ll want to die . . .

      Those years of activism taught me everything I needed to know about searching for alternatives. In the environmental battles, we had to search for solutions to air, water, and soil solutions as we looked for ways to cure them (which contamination had caused), alternatives in health care, medicine, cooking/food, as well as politics. Sharing and collaboration was learned and practiced at the Garvey Institute in East Lansing, Michigan, while work, study, and practice with C. L. R. James² in Washington, DC, Mom and Dad taught me everything I needed to know about living a life with meaning and faith. They were both Southerners from New Orleans who loved themselves and their people but hated Jim Crow. My mother and her

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