Civil Rights category: 2079 books

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Altreconomia 180, marzo 2016

Cina, ritorno al futuro

by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Altreconomia è tutta nuova: con il numero di marzo 2016, il mensile d’informazione indipendente cambia veste. Nel formato, nella grafica, nel numero di pagine (cresciuto fino a 76), nelle rubriche (con cinque autorevoli nuovi editorialisti) ma non nella qualità dei contenuti e del lavoro giornalistico....
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Altreconomia 167 - gennaio 2015

Il contadino non sorride

by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Altreconomia dedica la copertina al sorriso scomparso del contadino del Sud del mondo. Da Nestlé a Chiquita, da Cargill a Bunge. Chi comanda nelle “relazioni di mercato” delle filiere agricole di banane, caffè, canna da zucchero e cacao? Ecco la risposta, dal rapporto curato dal Fair Trade Advocacy...
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How to Resist

Turn Protest to Power

by Matthew Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno 'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe...
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Pagoda of Light

A Falun Gong Story from Today's China

by Yuan Meng, Long Tu
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008

This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet enlightening, path in life, especially for the two brilliant brothers...
Cover of Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019

Extrait : Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer ainsi, l’époque de la Liberté...
Cover of N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Politics Edition
by Hermene Hartman, David Smallwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years.
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by Voltaire
Language: French
Release Date: February 27, 2015

Extrait :  Je suis bien aise d’apprendre à l’univers que j’ai une terre qui me vaudrait net quarante écus de rente, n’était  la taxe à laquelle elle est imposée. Il parut plusieurs édits de quelques personnes qui, se trouvant de loisir, gouvernent...
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Country of My Skull

Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

by Antjie Krog
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation...
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Five Miles Away, A World Apart

One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

by James E. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010

How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of...
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Boston Against Busing

Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s

by Ronald P. Formisano
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot...
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GORE VIDAL's State of the Union

The Nation's Essays 1958-2008

by Gore Vidal, Richard Lingeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

The essays collected here all appeared in The Nation magazine between 1958 and 2005. The early literary ones reflected Vidal’s status as a rising young novelist of the postwar generation, and as he expanded confidently into nonfiction, his essays range widely over politics, religion, society, manners...
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A Struggle to Walk With Dignity

The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian

by Gerald A. Archambeau
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter....
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Spoken Soul

The Story of Black English

by John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." –Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A lively, well-documented...
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American Dreamers

How the Left Changed a Nation

by Michael Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.   While the history of the left is a...
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