Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Altreconomia 189 - Gennaio 2017
La conquista dell'Artico
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Altreconomia dedica la copertina a un reportage dall’Artico, dove la geopolitica scivola sul ghiaccio, tra riserve di gas e rotte commerciali. Alternanza scuola-lavoro: cronache di un progetto “immaturo” reso obbligatorio dalla legge “Buona scuola”. L’Europa contro la solidarietà. Se...
No Campus for White Men
The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
No Campus for White Men shines a bright light on the growing obsession with diversity, victimization and identity politics on today's college campuses, and shows how it is creating an intensely hostile and fearful atmosphere that can only lead, ultimately, to ever greater polarization in American...
Acting White?
Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really"...
by Richard R. W. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.
In It For the Long Haul
Overcoming Burnout & Passion Fatigue as Social Justice Change Agents
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Sometimes when you’re helping others, you need to learn to help yourself.
If you make serving others and engaging in activism a priority—whether as a volunteer or a professional—feeling exhausted and overwhelmed can come with the territory, sometimes leading to despair. When the problems...
Should America Pay?
Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign. As a result, the link between slavery and contemporary race relations is more potent and obvious than ever....
Water Security
The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiraling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for energy, and for manufacturing are surging. Water is already emerging as a headline geopolitical issue—and worsening water security...
Race to Incarcerate
A Graphic Retelling
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."
-Michelle Alexander
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project,...
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Former South End Press title that has sold 7,100 copies
Book helps readers understand rising tension between African Americans and police in wake of Mike Brown and Eric Garner murders
The foreclosure, unemployment, and incarceration crisis in the US has disproportionately affected African...
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
“Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing...
Quiet No More
New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people....
Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book is intended to ask— and attempt to answer— tough questions about the National Security State in the US and why the US government has sought to eliminate all notions of privacy
The author is a prominent National Security analyst, whose website receives over 7,000 hits per day....
Scandalous Economics
Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current...
Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation,...