Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Irmgard Marboe, Professor Hossein Esmaeili, Professor Javaid Rehman
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value for most societies. Establishing and promoting the rule of law in the Muslim world, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, has become a pressing but complicated issue. These states have Muslim...
Injustice
The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the "Holy Land Foundation Five" ended in a hung jury. The second, marked by highly questionable procedures, resulted in very lengthy sentences—for "supporting...
by John Rightson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Two thirds of this unique small book gives a careful précis of every part of the Islamic Qur’an. One third of the book describes the life of Muhammad, how the Qur’an came to be, briefly what is in it and how it relates to humankind now and originally. It includes Islam and human rights...
Integrationism and the Self
Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book draws from integrational semiology to investigate...
Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
A living instrument
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary.
Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a “riot,” “rebellion,” “uprising,”...
They Can't Kill Us All
Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
LA Times winner for The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
A New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Editors' Choice
**A Featured Title in The New York Times Book Review's "Paperback Row"
A Bustle "17 Books About Race Every White Person Should Read"
"Essential...
Dissenting Japan
A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Conformist, mute and malleable? Andrews tackles head-on this absurd caricature of Japanese society in his fascinating history of its militant sub-cultures, radical societies and well-established traditions of dissent Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked...
Colour-Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018
Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award
A...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
This volume contains the full text of twenty-three of the most important publications of Frederick Douglass that are available for electronic dissemination. Works included are:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave My Bondage and my Freedom Frederick Douglass...
by Walter Lord
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South
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On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An air force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits,...
Our Enemies in Blue
Police and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every...