Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The People’s Lawyer
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice, From Civil Rights to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending therights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Centerfor Constitutional Rights (CCR) has not played a central role,and yet few people have ever heard of it. Whether defendingthe rights of black people in the South, opponents of...
Letters of the Law
Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties.
Coverage includes the traditional...
The First Civil Right
How Liberals Built Prison America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that...
Waiving Our Rights
The Personal Data Collection Complex and Its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The United States is not a police state, but Congress is subject to special interests lobbying in pursuit of abusive commercial practices that leave a lot to be desired for transparency and accountability. It is illegal to data-mine personal files held by government agencies, schools and universities,...
Child Rights
The Movement, International Law, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International...
Making Disability Rights Real in Southeast Asia
Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in ASEAN
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book evaluates the national implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in ASEAN. Working with country-specific research teams, the contributors compiled detailed case-studies of CRPD implementation in each country in ASEAN. This book presents...
The Long Arc of Justice
Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Engaging the whole spectrum of public-policy issues affecting gays and lesbians from a humanistic and philosophical approach, Richard Mohr uses the tools of his trade to assess the logic and ethics of gay rights. Focusing on ideas and values, Mohr's nuanced case for legal and social acceptance applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Presenting reflections on the historical perspectives and philosophical foundations of human rights, this book provides a detailed analysis of civil and political rights, as well as the rights of persons belonging to such vulnerable groups as women, children and minorities, indigenous people, refugees, displaced persons and migrant workers.
Madison's Music
On Reading the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law” from one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers (The New York Times).
Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we’ve been treating small,...
From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from...
Corruption and Human Rights in India
Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
The malaise of corruption has become deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the Indian society. The increased frequency and scale of corruption have had deleterious effects on a wide range of issues. Corruption, therefore, must be viewed not just as an issue of law and order or of the...
Women's Rights and Religious Law
Domestic and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux. This relationship may be configured in a number of ways. Religious norms may be enforced by the state as part of a regime of personal law or,...
The New American Social Compact
Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact_the rights and obligations of citizenship_as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new...