Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Self-Defense for Radicals
A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Radicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress such vision and passion. Learning how to fight and/or...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents and URLs, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 8 include:
Article, "Racial Capitalism," by Nancy Leong
Essay, "Shallow Signals," by Bert I. Huang
Book Review, "All...
Liberty Intact
Human Rights in English Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions and...
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Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In 1993 Margie Witt, a young Air Force nurse, was chosen as the face of the Air Force’s “Cross into the Blue” recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clinton’s plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical...
Racial Culture
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality...
What's Wrong with Rights?
Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World,...
by Roger Bruns
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Two decades after Cesar Chavez's death, this timely book chronicles the drive for a union of one of American society's most exploited groups—farm workers. Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez is a valuable one-volume source based on the most recent research and available documentation. Historian Roger Bruns...
The Drone Memos
Targeted Killing, Secrecy and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
“A trenchant summation” and analysis of the legal rationales behind the US drone policy of targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including US citizens (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of “targeted...
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The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. The center of the technology revolution is the Internet, which fosters unprecedented opportunities for engagement in democratic society. The Americans with...
by Margarethe Cammermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
VIETNAM VETERAN
RECIPIENT OF THE BRONZE STAR
MOTHER OF FOUR
VA NURSE OF THE YEAR
DISCHARGED
In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret security clearance, U.S. Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer revealed that she was a lesbian–and began an ordeal that,...
Everyman's Constitution
Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion...
Reconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The...
by Marjorie S. Zatz
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
An insightful collection of essays from leading voices on the challenges and promise of justice and law, this book is accessible and interesting to a wide audience. It features internationally renowned members of the academy, national political figures, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and crusading...
Black Politics 2.0
Status of Black Politics Prior to and During the Political Advent of President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Gary James explores electoral politics from the 1960s to present day, providing a portal to black American contemporary politics. His insightful book discusses the internal dynamic between the civil rights and black power juxtaposition. Two main characters animate the narrative, Spike and CadreUSA, who...