Edgar S. Cahn (1935–2022)
Author of Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America
About the Author
Works by Edgar S. Cahn
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- Legal name
- Cahn, Edgar Stuart
- Birthdate
- 1935-03-23
- Date of death
- 2022-01-23
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Swarthmore College (BA)
Yale University (MA & PhD)
Yale Law School (JD) - Occupations
- lawyer
speechwriter
law professor
law school dean
nonprofit president - Organizations
- Citizen’s Advocate Center (cofounder)
National Legal Services Program
Antioch School of Law / University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (cofounder)
TimeBanksUSA (cofounder | president) - Relationships
- Cahn, Edmond Nathaniel (parent)
Cahn, Lenore L. (parent)
Gray, Christine K. (widow) - Short biography
- Edgar Cahn and his first wife, Jean Camper Cahn, together advocated for poor people. While working in Washington, DC, they coauthored an article for the Yale Law Journal, "The War on Poverty: a Civilian Perspective." The Legal Services Corporation was a direct result.
Later, they founded the Antioch School of Law, the first law school that added clinical legal experience to the traditional study of case law.
In the 1980s, the two developed the concept of service credits/time dollars, as a barter system for people to trade services. Jean Camper Cahn died in 1991. In 1995, Edgar Cahn established TimeBanksUSA, a national nonprofit for time banks. -karenb - Cause of death
- heart failure
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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This is a documentation of how not to help a People help themselves -- "Education" was used as a weapon of war, "Medicine" was used to exterminate, and "Reservations" were used to steal.
The author traces the major political, and sports, traditions of America to the native population [178]. Shows how the Indian tried but failed to civilize the White Man.
The author traces the major political, and sports, traditions of America to the native population [178]. Shows how the Indian tried but failed to civilize the White Man.
Co-production is a bold, pragmatic strategy that shatters limits on social change. This book exposes the Dark Side of money and market. It redefines economics by treating households and community as a separate economy. Placing that economy on a par with market generates a new exchange dynamic that empowers us all to: become change agents who can shape the future; convert failing social programs into catalysts for social justice; enlist throw-away people as partners in a shared mission; and show more create the world we want for our children. By Edgar Can, J.D., Ph.D., co-founder of national legal services, co-founder of Antioch School of Law, social activist, professor of law, and creator of Time Dollars and time banking. show less
Current indictment of the new injustices, indignities, and daily wrongs inflicted on 600,000 men, women and children. The most invisible of the poor, the prisoners of war. The bureaucracy which "controls" these prisoners has failed to achieve virtually every rational goal, with a ratio of one official to every 18 Indians. Give witness to this microcosm, and tremble to see it as a mirror. The deaf effort to destroy the last vestiges of cultures with vast experience on this land, persists, on show more our blind watch. show less
Cahn, in combination with Chris Gray in her new work on American Indian non-violent civil disobedience, shows how institutions can and must be re-developed to form a more just union.
In Service to Community,
ShiraDestinie Jones Landrac,
William-James-MEOW Date: Sunday, August 5. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
In Service to Community,
ShiraDestinie Jones Landrac,
William-James-MEOW Date: Sunday, August 5. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
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- 8
- Members
- 164
- Popularity
- #129,116
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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