Civil Rights

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988893702Author Linda Beatrice BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Women and Wisdom Foundation IncPublisher Women and Wisdom Foundation...

Majority-minority group relations are central to the proper functioning of any organization, but these relationships are especially important in democratically-elected legislatures. In legislatures, for example, group dynamics affect how the legislature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389614657Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021439Author Abdel A H SalamFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 493g

In Race-baiter, veteran journalist and media critic Eric Deggans dissects the powerful ways modern media feeds fears, prejudices, and hate, while also tracing the history of the word and its consequences, intended or otherwise.About the AuthorERIC...

Comprehensive and accessible, this one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of free speech issues on college campuses, including a range of political perspectives and viewpoints. It explains such concepts and forces as...

Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest...

This book examines the role that community-based educators in violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical nonviolent vision for racial and social justice.This work argues that nonviolence education can help communities...

`How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed...

Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003022Author Zach NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk...

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135159Author Corey BrettschneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Fowler tells the story...

The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world...

This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume...

Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or ambivalent about granting asylum. They fear that asylum-seekers...

Leading scholars, activists, and political leaders on being victim's of the world's worst atrocities "How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their...

In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684514120Author John K AmanchukwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Salem BooksPublisher Salem BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm *...

This is a gripping account of what it is like to live as a Palestinian - as a refugee in your own homeland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing about Palestinian affairs since 1985. She first worked as a journalist in...

In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community worker at the time and didn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957243200Author Richard FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint RFI Technical ServicesPublisher RFI Technical ServicesWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm)...

Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures? Should Western-based corporations be held liable if their security guards injure union activists in another part of the world, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732503403Author Vohra ArvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Roland Media DistributionPublisher Roland Media DistributionWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Toronto Book Award 2020. Short-listed for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2021 and Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing 2021. Nominated for OLA Evergreen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063272255Author Jane FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

The collection follows a cycle of remembering the past, learning from the present, and planning for the future. In the first section of the book, "Conflict, Self-Determination, and Native Peoples," contributors, including Mohawk activist Ken Deer, Judge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247236Author Tony BunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 2mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246918Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

During our first century as a nation, citizenshipandmdash;for a majority of Australiansandmdash;has meant the enjoyment of progressive political, social, economic and legal rights. Yet many groups in our society have been denied the usual benefits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593396803Author Ibram X. KendiFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights groups began organizing the Freedom Rides. The Freedom Riders were volunteers of different backgrounds who travelled on buses throughout the American South to help enforce the Supreme...

The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity. This book argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432340Author H. G. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268009359Author Stanley HoffmannFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press