Civil Rights category: 2079 books
How We Fight White Supremacy
A Field Guide to Black Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute
Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If...
Black Ethnics
Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States. But how will these "new blacks" behave politically in America? Using an original survey of New York City workers...
Public Interests
Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s...
Malcolm X at Oxford Union
Racial Politics in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech:"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."...
Queer Clout
Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively...
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to...
A Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times — civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the...
Building the Prison State
Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also...
Lion in the Lobby
Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Lion in the Lobby chronicles Clarence Mitchell's life story and mission of getting Congress to join the courts and the Executive Branch in upholding the Constitution in order to fulfill the NAACP's egalitarian philosophy. This revised edition features a detailed account of the bitter battle within...
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality
The complete decision, including dissenting opinions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The complete text of the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. This edition collects the widely quoted decision by Justice Kennedy, as well as the dissents of Justices Roberts,...
The Coming Race War
And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
In The Washington Post, Julius Lester praised Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race as free of cant and ideology. . . . an excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need. The New York Times has hailed Delgado as a pioneer...
Because of Race
How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book presents a collection of essays on key topics and new perspectives on the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) and has a Foreword by the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Prof. Dr. Koen Lenaerts.
Europe’s area of freedom, security and justice...
The Outrageous Rubenstein
How a Media-Savvy Trial Lawyer Fights for Justice and Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In this riveting memoir, super-attorney Sanford (“Sandy”) Rubenstein goes behind the scenes of his biggest cases, revealing how he helped change New York’s drunk-driving laws, won an $8.75 million settlement against New York City and its police union for torture victim Abner Louima, and gained...