Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Macaco
reflexões sobre um país racista
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Neste livro MACACO! Reflexões sobre um País RACISTA, nossa pretensão foi a de trazer a tona uma discussão sobre a questão racial na sociedade brasileira, mais propriamente dita o racismo, dentro de um enfoque que não se abrigue na mitigação, de pessoas brancas, que muitas vezes atribuem essas...
Missing
Persons and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged....
Understanding the Global Experience
Becoming a Responsible World Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Ekklesia
Three Inquiries in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable...
Captive Genders
Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation. This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning.
Eric Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow...
Securitization Theory
How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.
Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this...
Comrades
A Local History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2007
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late 60s and early 70s, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of nonviolence, and its...
Disappearing Palestine
Israel's Experiments in Human Despair
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Palestine is fast disappearing. Over many decades Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews,...
Beyond the Burning Cross
A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to the U.S. Supreme Court when, in 1991, he defended a white student who had burned a cross on a black family's lawn in St. Paul, Minnesota, violating a local...
by Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Since the 2004 presidential campaign, when the Bush presidential advance team prevented anyone who seemed unsympathetic to their candidate from attending his ostensibly public appearances, it has become commonplace for law enforcement officers and political event sponsors to classify ordinary expressions...
Anarcho-Fascism
Nature Reborn
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Anarcho-Fascism: Nature Reborn deals with a multitude of important current issues, and presents a controversial and constructive starting point for an intellectual discussion on how the West can regain control of its own destiny. The book can rightly be described as a polemical pamphlet, built on...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the...
Struggle on Their Minds
The Political Thought of African American Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In...