Civil Rights category: 2079 books

In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept. The chapters fall into four categories: on justice and democracy; justice...

An article on the awful but lucrative Chinese trade in organs from executed prisoners.

Immigration policy in the United States, Europe, and the Commonwealth went under the microscope after the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent events in London, Madrid, and elsewhere. We have since seen major changes in the bureaucracies that regulate immigration—but have those institutional...

Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions,...

Lawyer. Mother. Elected Official. Target. Traci O’Neal was thrust into the national spotlight in 2017 when local threats grew into a national racist outcry after a former GOP Presidential candidate singled her out on social media.  What followed was a deeply disturbing and widespread campaign...

The spread of new surveillance technologies is an issue of major concern for democratic societies. More ubiquitous and sophisticated monitoring techniques raise profound questions for the very possibility of individual autonomy and democratic government. Innovations in surveillance systems require...

After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.

Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are 'powerful'; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this 'power'...

The genesis of this books was the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on 11/8/16.  Mr. Butler asked himself the question that many of us have asked ourselves, "How could this have happened?"   He started a yearlong questioning and analysis of our Constitution and...

Human trafficking is the reprehensible practice of physically or psychologically compelling an individual to work or provide commercial sexual services. An estimated 21-30 million people are currently enslaved worldwide, with fewer than one percent of these individuals ever identified. Attorneys have...

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during...

¿Qué leían los argentinos en el diario mientras tenían lugar las desapariciones? ¿Es posible identificar en la prensa las condiciones sociales que las hicieron posibles? ¿De qué manera en la sociedad se banalizó la muerte y se estigmatizó a los llamados subversivos de manera que el exterminio...

There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...

Altreconomia dedica la copertina ai difensori dei diritti umani, dando spazio alle voci di chi si oppone a regimi oppressivi e si batte per la libertà e l’ambiente. Il "primo tempo" è aperto da un'inchiesta sul mercato delle emissioni: un affare per la grande industria in crisi, come...