Civil Rights category: 2079 books
American Nightmare
Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Henry Giroux’s message and influence have never been stronger. He saw Trump coming and sounded the alarm far in advance. That perspective was presented in his previous book from last year, America at War with Itself, which Robin D.G. Kelley has aptly referred to as a prescient work, as it assessed...
by World Watch Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Ruth Bader GinsbergThe Life of the Notorious Female JudgeBy World Watch MediaAt the start of her legal profession, Ginsburg dealt with trouble discovering work being a partner, a mom of a five-year-old child, and Jewish. In 1960, regardless of a strong suggestion from Albert Martin Sacks,...
The Meaning of Freedom
And Other Difficult Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of Freedom
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural,...
Freedom Feminism
Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Women’s equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute?
In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History...
Writing on the Wall
Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal
His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter, revolutionary-his...
by Barack Obama
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In dit boek maakt Barack Obama waar wat hij in ‘Dromen van mijn vader’ beloofde: te laten zien hóé je het verschil kan maken in de politiek. In ‘De herovering van de Amerikaanse droom’ legt hij de blauwdruk voor de politieke filosofie waarmee hij campagne zou voeren, en uiteindelijk president...
by Ma Thida (Suragamika)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This remarkable work of documentary fiction takes place in Burma, spanning more than two decades of the pro-democracy movement. It is a spare and poignant portrayal of the country’s continuing political instability and two fictitious families whose lives are inexorably shaped by the turmoil....
Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction
Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness...
The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America’s best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.
Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
Tough Talk
How I Fought for Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright censorship, face powerful adversaries. But...
Crossing the Thinnest Line
How Embracing Diversity-from the Office to the Oscars-Makes America Stronger
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
FROM THE VERY FOUNDING OF OUR NATION, diversity has been one of our greatest strengths but also the greatest source of conflict. In less than a generation, America will become "minority-majority," and the world economy, already interconnected, will be even more globalized. The stakes for...
A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi
The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers...
Constitutional Peril
The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Renowned attorney and political critic Bruce Fein reveals the dangers our Constitution and our nation have faced courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the switch. In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror--from the flouting of the Foreign...