Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Roger Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Well established on college reading lists, Prisoners Without Trial presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. With a new preface, a new epilogue, and expanded recommended readings, Roger Daniels’s...
Politics and the Past
On Repairing Historical Injustices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze...
Same-Sex Marriage and Children
A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A....
Microradio & Democracy
(Low) Power to the People
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases,...
by Veterans of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Drawing from and expanding on the themes of Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this in-depth guide provides a launching pad for groups wishing to engage in deep, meaningful dialogue about race, racism, and structural inequality in the age of mass incarceration. The Study...
Torture Team
Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that...
by Omar Barghouti
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Leading international voices argue for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of...
Must We Defend Nazis?
Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech
Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries...
Why I Stand
From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
American Individualism has been the crown jewel of a nation that, based on its Judeo-Christian values, has prioritized God, family, and freedom to out-dream its obstacles. It is the freedom of this individual spirit that is under attack by its adversarial ideology, Marxist Socialism. This destructive...
A Voice That Could Stir an Army
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story...
Democratic Decline in Hungary
Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book shows the rise and morphology of a self-identified `illiberal democracy’, the first 21st century illiberal political regime arising in the European Union. Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s governments in Hungary have convincingly offered an anti-modernist and anti-cosmopolitan/anti-European...
Still a House Divided
Race and Politics in Obama's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Why have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation? Has President Barack Obama defined new political approaches to race that might spur unity and progress? Still a House Divided examines the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political...
by Juan Nepomuceno Silva Meza, Fernando Silva García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Este libro es un ensayo, al mismo tiempo, de teoría del derecho, filosofía política, teoría de la interpretación y argumentación jurídica. Su mérito principal, además de ser su aspecto más original, consiste en su enfoque multidisciplinario de los derechos fundamentales, que se abordan no...