Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Unwanted
Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ New York Public Library Best Of 2018 ∙ The Horn Book’s Fanfare 2018 list ∙ Kirkus Best Books of 2018 ∙ YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Winner
In the tradition of two-time Sibert honor winner Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels...
by Franz Kafka
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
La obra de Franz Kafka significa un hito en la literatura universal. Su nouvelle La metamorfosis condensa gran parte de sus preocupaciones: la alienación del individuo, la insatisfacción y la obligación de someter a la propia libertad a las órdenes de las instituciones. Temas que también están...
No Place to Hide
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The New York Times Bestseller
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old...
The Straight State
Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
by Anthony Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
by Alejandra Medina Mora F., Pedro Salazar Ugarte, Daniel Vázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 3, 2015
¿Qué es una restricción a los derechos humanos?, ¿cuántas y cuáles son las restricciones que presenta nuestra Constitución?, ¿deben observarse ciertas reglas para establecerlas y aplicarlas? Si ese fuera el caso, ¿en qué consisten esas reglas? Interrogantes que son centrales en el debate...
I Can't Breathe
A Killing on Bay Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old...
by Ibram X. Kendi
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle...
Thomas Naylor’s Paths to Peace
Small is Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
"A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power."
— Leopold Kohr, Breakdown of Nations
This insight was Thomas Naylor's lodestone; it informed...
Democracy Now!
Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!—and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results.
In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting...
Common Ground
A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked,...
by Ijeoma Oluo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...