Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Sovereign Citizen
Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose—at home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentieth-century authoritarian...
Brave New Neighborhoods
The Privatization of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Fighting for First Amendment rights is as popular a pastime as ever, but just because you can get on your soapbox doesn't mean anyone will be there to listen. Town squares have emptied out as shoppers decamp for the megamalls; gated communities keep pesky signature gathering activists away; even most...
by Ray Barron Woolford
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
A selection of Ray Barron-Woolford's most popular articles of the past twelve months. Covering topics such as poverty, sanctions, war and human rights.
Before the Revolution
Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera...
LULAC
The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is one of the best-known and active national organizations that represent Mexican Americans and their political interests. Since its founding in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1929, it has served as a vehicle through which Mexican Americans can strive...
The Glass Palace
Illusions of Freedom and Democracy in Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When Mr. Beydoun accepted an offer to work in Qatar in 2007, the population of this tiny, insular sheikhdom had jumped from 400,000 to 1.6 million in just seven years (around 250,000 actual Qatari citizens and over 1,350,000 guest workers), while its per capita GDP had skyrocketed to among the highest...
Breaking the Ice
From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland....
by mark mullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book critically examines the link between the language of the Second Amendment and the gun culture in America. Does the Second Amendment guarantee all citizens with the right to own a gun? Is gun control implied in the language used to define the Second Amendment? Are the mentally ill responsible...
#Duped
How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
While the nation grieves over tragedies like the Parkland school shooting, the anti-gun lobby jumps into action. They exploit such tragedies to advance their political agenda.
The gun grabbers—with the help of the mainstream media—trot out a few traumatized young survivors of the shootings...
The War on Women in Israel
A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
THIS EYE-OPENING LOOK AT THE RISING OPPRESSION OF ISRAELI WOMEN OFFERS A RALLYING CRY FOR HOW WOMEN EVERYWHERE CAN FIGHT BACK.
ACROSS ISRAEL-one of the world's most democratic countries-women are being threatened and abused as ultra-Orthodox Jewish factions seek to suppress them. In this stunning...
The Lost Education of Horace Tate
Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers.”
-Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance...
Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan
The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty, and lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women. Her voice, speaking for freedom, has never been silenced. The compelling...
Women's Activism in Africa
Struggles for Rights and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The only up-to-date, comprehensive study of women’s political movements in Africa
Brings together a wide array of case studies and original empirical material from across the continent – both North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
Authored by mostly African academics and activists who have themselves...
by Yoram Dinstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This dispassionate analysis of the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts explores the rules regulating the conduct of internal hostilities, as well as the consequences of intervention by foreign States, the role of the Security Council, the effects of recognition, State responsibility...