Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Bob Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Feminist ideology has seeped into every aspect of our society. This book is a sobering true story of tragedy, suicide, and murder directly caused by feminism. It not only chronicles true stories that show feminism's discrimination against men, it's backed by peer-reviewed research. Additionally,...
Killing the American Dream
How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
As the US deports record numbers of illegal immigrants and local and state governments scramble to pass laws resembling dystopian police states where anyone can be questioned and neighbors are encouraged to report on one another, violent anti-immigration rhetoric is growing across the nation. Against...
by Kitty Calavita
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with...
Executed on a Technicality
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries...
by Michael J. Glennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" - the President,...
by United Citizens Of Black americA
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
We've marched, sang, prayed, protested, boycotted, sat-in, and waited it out. Black America , it's time for a New Vision.
The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness....
Educazione Democratica, numero 5, gennaio 2013
Rivista di pedagogia politica
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Educazione Democratica è una rivista di pedagogia politica pubblicata dalle Edizioni del Rosone e rilasciata con licenza Creative Commons. In questo numero un dossier su Dewey: educazione e bene comune.
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay...
Capital Punishment
An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Billy Wayne Sinclair was only twenty-one when sentenced to death. Because of an accidental shooting, he spent the next forty years in prison. When the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty, Billy was re-sentenced to life without parole. Here, he offers a blistering examination of the death penalty and its origins.
Black Churches and Local Politics
Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations. These case studies illustrate how black activist clergy and congregations negotiate the political terrains of their respective cities. The...
Roots for Radicals
Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicalsremains his definitive reflection on these fundamental principles of community activism:...
A Little Taste of Freedom
The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The...
by Mark V. Tushnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization...