Civil Rights category: 2079 books

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by Robert Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015

Our freedoms are under attack. Time and again we hear demands, from people who call themselves Muslims, that some of our most cherished and important freedoms be denied or restricted. We, in the free world, need a firm response in order to protect our liberty and our entire way of life - but...
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by Camilla Johnson Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

This is a must read book for Conservatives, political activists, political candidates, and others who desire to understand the inner workings of the Black Community, politically and socially, and the relevancy of the Black Conservative message today in getting out the African-American vote for Conservatives....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

The Pew Charitable Trusts defines civic engagement as “Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to...
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Responsive Authoritarianism in China

Land, Protests, and Policy Making

by Christopher Heurlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

How can protests influence policymaking in a repressive dictatorship? Responsive Authoritarianism in China sheds light on this important question through case studies of land takings and demolitions - two of the most explosive issues in contemporary China. In the early 2000s, landless farmers and...
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Racing to Justice

Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

by john a. powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race,...
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Borderlands Media

Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants

by David Toohey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward. Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s...
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The Edward Snowden Affair

Exposing the Politics and Media Behind the NSA Scandal

by Mchael Gurnow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Edward Snowden Affair is groundbreaking look at Edward Snowden, the NSA, the media that broke the story, and the politicians involved. Author Michael Gurnow presents the facts about how the story broke, the technologies and techniques used by the NSA, and the reactions of key political figures....
Cover of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald…. Summarized
by J.J. Holt
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2014

This is a summary of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald…. Summarized by J.J. Holt
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Against Authority

Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States

by John Twelve Hawks
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

In both his novels and in his 2005 essay, How We Live Now, John Twelve Hawks was one of the first authors to warn us about the growing power of surveillance technology. Now he has written a personal and controversial book that shows how our lives are watched and analyzed by governments and international...
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Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

Contributions from the private sector to address violent conflict

by Derek Sweetman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009

Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world, and explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding. This...
Cover of Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006

Even in the twenty-first century, the contemporary Chinese prison camp remains a more obscure and poorly understood realm than the Forbidden City of old. Apolitical service organizations such as the International Red Cross have routinely been denied access to PRC prison camps and prison camp inmates...
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Klosophy

A lifetime of observation & engagement.

by Kehinde Sonola
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013

Klosophy has been described as a philosophy book. However, the author calls it a life book that is not necessary for everyone but is for everyone. The author revealed that he fully expects many to cease communicating with him after the publication of the work but that as long as he has provoked thought,...
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Race, Wrongs, and Remedies

Group Justice in the 21st Century

by Amy L. Wax
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law...
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The War Against Cash

The plot to empty your wallet and own your financial future – and why you MUST fight it

by Ross Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017

We are constantly being told that we are on the cusp of a cashless society. The financial services industry would certainly like to see it that way. We are being enticed with contactless cards, mobile phone payment apps, and methods of bank transfer: all, apparently, for our convenience. But as Ross...
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