Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Silencing Political Dissent
How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical...
African Migrants and Europe
Managing the ultimate frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The process of migration control mirrors the trajectories of the people who traverse national boundaries, making today’s borders flexible and fluid.
This book explores the transformation of migration control in the post 9/11 era. It looks at how border controls have become more diffuse in...
American Hate
Survivors Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**Amid the ugly realities of contemporary America, American Hate affirms our courage and inspiration, opening a roadmap to reconciliation by means of the victims' own words.”
-NPR Books
The collection offers possible solutions for how people, on their own or working with others, can confront...
De Colores Means All of Us
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents...
Twenty-First Century Color Lines
Multiracial Change in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering...
Simple Not Easy
Reflections on community social responsibility and tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
HE MADE HISTORY. HE TELLS THE TRUTHS HE KNOWS.
LEAD TITLE/Our National Conversation Series
"Terrence Roberts is in the truest sense an upstander - an individual whose voice and actions compel us to explore difficult topics and challenge us to face our shared history, honestly....
Gateway to Equality
Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the "Gateway City" continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these...
Why Are Americans So Afraid?
Is It Too Late For Americans to Save America?
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
My fellow Americans, America is in trouble and today is the time that we fix what is wrong with our beloved country.
In WHY ARE AMERICANS SO AFRAID? you will find a comprehensive book, that delve into concerns that we as Americans have today. See, we have to change America, because there are...
EU Civil Justice
Current Issues and Future Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This seventh volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series brings together some of the most prominent scholars working within the fast-evolving field of EU civil justice. Civil justice has an impact on matters involving, inter alia, family relationships, consumers, entrepreneurs, employees,...
by E. Frederic Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
An outstanding contribution to the literature of African-American history, Black Man in the White House is the first-person account of E. Frederic Morrow, the first African-American to reach an executive position in the White House. He served with distinction as Administrative Officer for Special...
Democracy Detained
Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government...
Black Woman Reformer
Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral...
The Case Against Free Speech
The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech--and how we can reclaim it.
There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether...
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial...