Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Unwarranted
Policing Without Permission
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“At a time when policing in America is at a crossroads, Barry Friedman provides much-needed insight, analysis, and direction in his thoughtful new book. Unwarranted illuminates many of the often ignored issues surrounding how we police in America and highlights why reform is so urgently needed....
The Time is Always Now
Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception...
by Ronald Walters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
“In The Price of Racial Reconciliation*,* Ronald Walters offers an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities for reconciliation are viewed in the future. If...
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws...
The End of Obscenity
The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer & Fanny Hill by the Lawyer Who Defended Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Winner of the George Polk Award: Charles Rembar’s illuminating account of overturning America’s obscenity laws and protecting literature from censorship
Up until the 1960s, depending on your state of residence, your copy of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer might be seized by the US Postal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response.
The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics,...
Split Decisions
How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them....
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed.
Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity.
Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform...
by Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar, Marlon Andrés Bernal Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Un libro que trata un tema de vital importancia en el país.
La tierra, más que ningún otro factor, ha determinado los principales
problemas de Colombia: la pobreza, el atraso, la violencia, la
desigualdad. Aun así, durante décadas no pasó de ser un asunto casi
marginal, tratado con medidas...
I Am a Feminist
Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
What is feminism? Why does it still matter? What exactly does intersectionality mean? In order to answer these (and many other) questions, I Am a Feminist first examines the history of feminism and then addresses the issues girls and women continue to face today. The book also looks at the ways in...
by Suzanne I. Barchers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
There is so much that needs to be done before Luce can go to the dunes. Beginning readers can read along and practice words with long U sounds in this enjoyable story that features challenge words, large, clear text and vibrant, refreshing illustrations.
I bastardi di Sarajevo
Una città in balìa della corruzione, un Paese senza speranze di futuro, il fantasma del passato che torna dall’Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2014
“La scrittura acre e tosta di Leone manda di morte e polvere da sparo e ci indirizza verso un’Ade balcanica senza ritorno e senza via d’uscita, ove la cartolina ridente della Bosnia Erzegovina e della pittoresca Sarajevo si scolora, accartoccia, annerisce, come buttata nelle braci ardenti del...
Chi parla rischia
Altro che Snowden: in Italia chi segnala illeciti o abusi nel luogo di lavoro non è tutelato
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Altreconomia dedica la copertina del numero di gennaio 2016 al “whistleblower”, cioè colui che rivela informazioni riservate per denunciare episodi di corruzione o presunti illeciti sul luogo di lavoro. Chi parla, in Italia, rischia e non è tutelato. Il “caso Snowden”, infatti, non ha smosso...
Immigration Nation
The American Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
What does it mean to be an immigrant today? Has the immigrant experience changed since the last century?
Immigration Nation: The American Identity in the Twenty-First Century invites middle and high schoolers to explore the history of immigration in the United States, along with immigration...