Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?
This collection of reports and...
Federal Reports on Police Killings
Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After a series of incidents in which police officers in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, killed four unarmed African Americans--Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, and Michael Brown--resulting in widespread civic unrest and violent protests, the Department of Justice launched...
Beyond Glory
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers...
The Anti-Inauguration
Building resistance in the Trump era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.
The five essential speeches presented here are taken from The Anti-Inauguration, held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books.
WHAT WE DO NOW
Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The National Bestseller
The election of Donald Trump to be the 45th President of the United States of America shocked and dismayed progressives across the country. What We Do Now, a collection of passionate manifestos by some of the country's leading progressives, aims to provide a blueprint...
The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Updated with a new Afterword
“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. But as journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion, the Internet is a tool that both revolutionaries and authoritarian governments...
A Call to Conscience
The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
This companion volume to "A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr". includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and "Beyond Vietnam", a powerful plea...
Critical Security Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Critical Security Studies introduces students to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of evolving approaches and key issues. This new edition contains two new chapters and has been fully revised and updated.
Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies:
offers...
Immigration
Tough Questions, Direct Answers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Granted the Digital Book World QED Seal for quality in ebook design How can we be sure terrorists aren't entering our country? What does it mean to be a citizen? Do immigrants help or hurt the economy? What's wrong with calling someone an illegal immigrant? In this Skeptic's Guide™ Dale Hanson Bourke...
Identity Deleted
A Compelling, True Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
In 1993 I traveled to the Middle East as a financial consultant. I intended to return to the U.S. in five weeks. When the principals of the firm suddenly departed I was held liable for their debts and subsequently sentenced to two years in a high security Arab prison. While in jail, I learned of...
by Bill Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
“Politics is stuck,” writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t dead. It can be reawakened.”
What will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling author, former...
Floodlines
Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
"This is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines."Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues and activist and founder of...
Blood in the Streets
Racism, Riots and Murders in the Heartland of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the midst of a nation suffering through riots and racial stife in the 1965-1975 era, which was one of the most violent periods in urban American history, a racist sniper roamed the streets of Dayton, Ohio. He stalked and killed black men as a vigilante determined to stop federal court-ordered public...
Democracy and Terrorism
Friend or Foe?
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will...