Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Helen Fenwick, Richard Glancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and...
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The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Timing: Available in time for Black History Month 2019
Fascinating New Material: This book is a carefully chosen selection of Robert Penn Warren’s interviews with leading civil rights figures, some of them available for the first time. The interviewees include James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael,...
How to Read African American Literature
Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s...
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality, Gift Edition
As Delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A beautifully packaged gift edition of Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
A milestone in the history of American civil and human rights, Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. A...
The Sit-Ins
Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until...
Colorblind Injustice
Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Challenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J. Morgan Kousser criticizes the Court's "postmodern equal protection" and demonstrates that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy.
Offering an original interpretation...
The New Black Politician
Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
At the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more...
by Douglas M. Fryer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
The book tells the story of a highly controversial civil rights case which involved the Alaska salmon industry. That industry is an intense summer operation in mostly remote wilderness. The participants were drawn from a wide range of sources: Natives who had harvested salmon for centuries, Italian,...
by Sparrow R Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Sparrow Rose Jones is probably best known for their blog, Unstrange Mind: Remapping My World, and their previous book, No You Don’t: Essays from an Unstrange Mind, both of which deftly narrate their examination of themself, their identity as an Autistic person, and the changing state of access and...
Security, Law and Borders
At the Limits of Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies.
In the aftermath of 9/11, security practices and the denial of human rights and civil liberties are often portrayed as an exception to liberal rule, and seen as institutionally, legally...
Thinking About Terrorism
The Threat to Civil Liberties in a Time of National Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Written in response to Judge Richard Posner's "Not a Suicide Pact," Michael Tigar's new book examines the responses of governments throughout history to terrorist threats, including those in our own nation's history. Tigar focuses specifically on the effects of governmental action on the...
Bending Toward Justice
The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers.
On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four...
by Lillian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against...
Concentrate Questions and Answers Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Law Q&A Revision and Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The Concentrate Q&As are a result of a collaboration involving hundreds of law students and lecturers from universities across the UK. The series offers you better support and a greater chance to succeed on your law course than any of the competitors. 'A sure-fire way to get a 1st class result' (Naomi...