Civil Rights category: 2079 books

Concise responses to over 200 most vile, widely debunked and yet variedly repeated Islamophobic comments levelled against ordinary Muslims and Islam today by renowned Islamophobes, anti-Muslim groups, talk-show hosts, presidential candidates and right-wing politicians, either out of intolerance or...

This book provides a stateoftheart assessment of citizen participation practice and research in the United States. With contributions from a stellar group of scholars, it provides readers an overview of a field at the heart of democratic governance. Individual chapters trace shifts in participation...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. According to Frances Moore Lappé, economic rules taken as dogma have allowed an increasing concentration of decision-making power over...

This book tells of the challenges faced by white and black school administrators, teachers, parents, and students as Alachua County, Florida, moved from segregated schools to a single, unitary school system. After Brown v. Board of Education, the South’s separate white and black schools continued...

The 2008 elections in Malaysia saw the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, suffer its worst showing since independence, balancing political power and bringing hope of a more progressive, democratic future. No one expected such a show of support for the untested opposition and a show of dissent against...

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility...

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private...

From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known...

In 2011 former US Rebublican Senator Rick Santorum stated that: 'All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian'. This was echoed by another former Rebublican Senator, Newt Gingrich, who claimed: 'I think we have had an invented Palestinian...

L’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica ritiene che la fecondazione medicalmente assistita sia un diritto di ogni cittadino italiano e si batte affinché la Legge 40/2004 venga sostituita da una disciplina più europea, laica e liberale. Dopo aver dato vita al referendum...

A novella sized piece covering the Ulster troubles, called the Stormont Riots, the street battles and intrigues of Ulster Protestants and IRA. "John Bryson has the skills of literary journalism, and abundant luck" a Penguin Books copywriter wrote for a back cover, and this was the...

There has been a reawakening among professional and collegiate sportspersons from LeBron James to the Missouri University football team, who are now choosing to use their platform as athletes to call attention to racial injustice. Long Shot shares the history of political Black athlete through...

“De afgevaardigde, die prijs stelt op zijn mandaat, moet bewust of onbewust, letten op hen, die bij de stembus invloed hebben, en het is onmogelijk dat de Kamer doorgaand even goed kan letten op de belangen van hen, die geen stem hebben.” Van Houten. Vragen des Tijds, 1881. “Het...