Civics and citizenship Books
Cambridge University Press Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship
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Cambridge University Press Eyes off the Prize
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Cambridge University Press Corporations and Citizenship Business Responsibility and Society Business Value Creation and Society
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Cambridge University Press The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to W E B Du Bois Cambridge Companions to American Studies
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Cambridge University Press African Womens Movements
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Cambridge University Press Imagining Equality in NineteenthCentury American Literature 157 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 157
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Cambridge University Press Citizens Under Compulsory Voting
Book SynopsisThis Element examines citizens' perceptions, their knowledge of the system, and whether they support it. The authors connect this with information on citizens' reported turnout and vote choice to assess who is affected by mandatory voting. Each country has its own set of rules, and most voters are unaware of how they are enforced.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Three cases: Australia, Belgium, and Brazil; 3. Citizens' perceptions and knowledge; 4. Support for compulsory voting; 5. Compulsory voting works: it increases turnout; 6. The consequences of compulsory voting; 7. Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
Book SynopsisThis history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations from 1945?1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping operations being criticised for their colonial underpinnings, our understanding of the ways in which colonial actors and ideas influenced peacekeeping practices on the ground has been limited and imprecise. In this multi-archival history, Margot Tudor investigates the UN''s formative armed missions and uncovers the officials that orchestrated a reinvention of colonial-era hierarchies for Global South populations on the front lines of post-colonial statehood. She demonstrates how these officials exploited their field-based access to perpetuate racial prejudices, plot political interference, and foster protracted inter-communal divisions in post-colonial conflict contexts. Bringing together histories of humanitarianism, decolonisation, and the Cold War, Blue Helmet Bureaucrats sheds new light on the mechanisms through which sovereignty was negotiated and re-negotiated after 1945.
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Cambridge University Press The Prohibition of Torture and IllTreatment under International Law
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Cambridge University Press New Regional Authorities
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Cambridge University Press The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of
Book SynopsisArgues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.Trade Review'The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy expands the frontier of critical democratic theory by offering original and insightful readings of Plato's political philosophy, Euripidean tragedy, and forensic oratory, Demetra Kasimis' probing analysis of the 'precarious proximity' of metoikoi - long-term non-native residents of ancient Athens - reveals much about classical political thought, Athenian history, and the entanglement of democratic ideals with nativist impulses. This book is both timely and a work for the ages. It has a great deal to offer to contemporary political theorists and classical historians alike. It should be read, pondered, and debated by everyone concerned with the contested category of democratic citizenship.' Josiah Ober, Stanford University, California'Theorizing democratic inclusion and exclusion together, The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy brings to light the ways in which understanding citizenship in Athenian political thought depends on interrogating the place of the metic. Attending to figurations of immigrant politics in texts by Euripides, Plato, and Demosthenes, Demetra Kasimis argues that political status - metic and/or citizen - is the uncertain and precarious performance of a naturalized distinction, a performance because, in truth, not natural at all. Full of provocative readings of the unstable place of the metic in polis life alongside shifts in the meaning of democratic citizenship, Kasimis's book offers a persuasive rejoinder to nativist readings of the ancient Greeks as well as to the nativist politics of our times.' Jill Frank, Cornell University, New York'In Kasimis's striking revision, the metic's exclusion on the basis of blood based descent, reveals not the primitive past of ancient democracy, but the ever-present pull of nativism for stabilizing democratic equality. This is an enormously generative insight. In exposing the politicization of identity to be a constitutive effect of democratic politics, Kasimis attunes us to both the recurring appeal but also the inherent ambiguity of naturalized categories of membership - a point she pursues in a bold rereading of the critical purpose of The Republic. With great subtlety and sophistication, Kasimis shows us how this ambiguity calls forth practices of policing and scrutiny that shape and stratify the lived experience of democratic citizenship.' Karuna Mantena, Yale University, Connecticut'Focusing on the inexplicably overlooked but nonetheless constitutively central role of the figure of metoikoi to both the practice and critical theory of Athenian democracy, Demetra Kasimis confronts interpretations of Plato that are not just taken for granted but which have served as fixed referents for generations of readers. She then proceeds not to amend or supplement such readings, but to turn them inside-out entirely, and in the process, to transform radically not only our readings of the classic texts, but also our fundamental understanding (historical and conceptual) of democracy itself. This book powerfully illuminates that democratic politics are always already metoikia - a politics of immigration, a politics of resident foreigners, a politics of participation and status, a politics of insider-outsiders, a performative politics, a (de)naturalizing politics, a politics of passing.' Samuel A. Chambers, The Johns Hopkins University'This theoretically supple and surprisingly timely book probes overlooked tensions internal to both the reality and the ideal of ancient Athenian democracy.' Joan Cocks, The Review of Politics'This is a challenging, but ultimately rewarding, book … Readers in Classical Studies and in Political Science will find much to ponder in this stimulating book.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'Her interpretive approach is at once sophisticated and clear, offering a distinctive lens through which we can see the writers engaging critically with Athenian nativist politics.' Perspectives on Politics'… this book is 'good to think with'.' SehepunkteTable of ContentsPart I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory; 2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership; Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space; 4. Plato's open decret; 5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII; Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood; Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy; Appendix. A metic timeline.
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Cambridge University Press Disability in Contemporary China
Book SynopsisSarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing, media and state documents, she sheds important new light on the ways in which disability and disabled identities have been represented and negotiated over this time. She exposes the standards against which disabled people have been held as the Chinese state has grappled with expectations of what makes the ''ideal'' Chinese citizen. From this, she proposes an exciting new theoretical framework for understanding disabled citizenship in different societies ''para-citizenship''. A far more dynamic relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined, her new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of citizenship for disabled people the perils of bodily and mental difference and the potential for personal aTrade Review'Sarah Dauncey's brilliant book breaks entirely new ground in the study of disability in contemporary China. Via a series of finely-grained, closely-argued case studies, Dauncey explores the representation of disability across multiple media forms, and essentially creates a new scholarly field as she makes compelling arguments about citizenship and the articulation of identity amongst disabled people in China.' Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford'Disability in Contemporary China is a foundational study of the cultural representation of disability in Chinese literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Mao era to the present, firmly grounded in both social theory and disability activism, Dauncey sets a significant marker of excellence for an emerging field.' Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame'This is a timely and hugely significant work. Dauncey's wide-ranging and sophisticated analysis of the place of disability in Chinese culture does much to move the field of critical disability studies beyond its familiar 'Global North' focus and provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the cultural, ideological and historical construction of the 'para-citizen' in Chinese society. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of non-normative identity in China today.' Hannah Thompson, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Understanding disability and citizenship in China; 1. Where did all the disabled people go? Cultural invisibility before 1976; 2. Backstage to centre stage: new heroes in the age of reform; 3. Entertainment or education? Disability and the cinematic imagination; 4. A narrative prosthesis? Disability and the literary imagination; 5. Blind, but not in the dark: realism sheds new light on visual impairment; 6. Private lives for public consumption: writing our disabled life stories; conclusion: the perils and possibilities of para-citizenship; References; Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Erdogan Rising The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
Book Synopsis ‘Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.’ Literary Review ‘Essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan ‘It is a must.’ The Times Trade Review‘A brilliant guide, filled with insights … Not only essential reading for those wanting to understand contemporary Turkey, its politics and those of the wider region; essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan ‘An engagingly written and factually scrupulous portrait … She captures his essence: the charisma and the paranoia, the skill of the political natural … Smith’s narrative has an empathetic and fair-minded grasp of Turkey’s colliding narratives … Full of dazzling cameos and incidental delights.’ Financial Times 'A comprehensive and nuanced account of Erdogan’s rule and the way he has ridden the tides of politics. For anyone interested in Turkey it is a must, but it also roams widely through the study of power and populism, full of revealing detail … Smith has a subtle intelligence; she deftly weaves the blowback from the collapse of Syria into her contemporary story … She writes very well, with an engaging mix of personal anecdote, acute observation, interviews and well-informed research; there’s no fat on this book and never a dull page.' Times ‘Fascinating … Much more than just a political biography … Essential reading.’ Literary Review ‘Does a brilliant job of revealing what has been going on in Turkey … Written in a lively and inviting style, her book records journeys throughout Turkey and its borders in search of those who can help to explain, or at least illuminate, Erdogan’s years in power.’ TLS ‘A fine book showing an aptitude to look way beyond the surface, and an eye for telling details which comes from her being an accomplished journalist based in Turkey’ Independent ‘One should begin by applauding Smith’s courage and determination in remaining in both Syria and Turkey during their upheavals and keeping her cool as a journalist … Could not be timelier … Excels in explaining elements of recent Turkish history.’ New Statesman
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc America by Heart
Book SynopsisCelebrates the strengths and virtues that have made the United States great. This book ranges widely over American history, culture, and current affairs, and reflects on the key values - both national and spiritual - that have been such a profound part of Governor Palin's life and continue to inform her vision of America's future.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In a stunningly original book, Ellis Cose cuts to the very core of free speech battles. Ordinary people are being held captive by ear-splitting political voices while not enough Americans are protecting and being freed by listening to the voices of ordinary people. An abolitionist book for this moment, for this time when free speech slumbers in chains.” — Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author “An urgent and illuminating work about the stranglehold the rich and powerful have on free speech. And, what is essential to defend the voice of individuals in order to protect the freedoms of all.” — Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country “Ellis Cose is a strong, brilliant, original writer dealing with the most important issues of our democracy—good and bad speech, the broken electoral college, our awful voter suppression problem, race, and the coronavirus crisis. His writings on divisive issues, past and present, come from a unique and compelling perspective.” — Martin Garbus, author of Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law and North of Havana “During this period of social disruption, misinformation and political uncertainty, Ellis Cose brilliantly outlines past battles to protect and expand the First Amendment to exercise our right to be heard and to speak truth to power. . . . As importantly, Cose brings us face-to-face with the reality that dark money and darker science are suborning truth to invented realities, and makes us face the fact that our proposition that free speech will out the truth, will instead be drowned in crashing waves of willful misinformation.” — Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks, and Veteran Political Strategist and former Chair, Democratic National Committee “This timely, compelling narrative guides its readers toward understanding the complex twists and turns of free speech in America. This engrossing journey includes a diagnosis and dissection of a broken system with hope for a resurrection of free expression for individuals struggling to be heard and understood. A rigorous argument for a new trajectory for the First Amendment. Unfettered free speech may be greatly threatened, but don’t count it out…even amid a pandemic and cries for justice.” — Everette E. Dennis, Ph.D., professor, Medill School of Journalism, formerly Dean and CEO, Northwestern University in Qatar “As Ellis Cose observes in his provocative and timely new book, ‘free speech’ has always been contested terrain, not a fixed star. With most Americans now getting their news and information from private platforms that seek to ‘engage’ rather than enlighten and that are optimized for corporate profits rather than public interest, the need for a critical analysis of the purpose of free speech has never been more urgent. Even readers who will view Cose’s ‘death’ notice as premature – perhaps especially those readers – will find much to grapple with here.” — Ben Wizner, Director, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project “With searing clarity, Ellis Cose explores what happens when as a society, we coddle the powerful and privileged—even when they enable the forces of hate and pursue anti-democratic goals—at the expense of the people. . . . This book is both an indictment of our social and political landscape and a source for inspiration, offering a way forward for building a 21st century democracy—one where all of our voices are valued and heard.” — Vanita Gupta, Associate U.S. Attorney General
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HarperCollins Battle for the American Mind
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book yet: A revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination. Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired love of God and country, and raised future citizens that changed the world forever. Today, after 16,000 hours of K-12 indoctrination, our kids come out of government schools hating America. They roll their eyes at religion and disdain our history. We spend more money on education than ever, but kids can barely read and write—let alone reason with discernment. Western culture is on the ropes. Kids ar
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HarperCollins American Whitelash
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Penguin Putnam Inc And the Pursuit of Happiness
Book SynopsisEnergized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a year-long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artist’s idiosyncratic vision of history and contemporary politics. Whether returning to America’s historical roots at the Lincoln archive and Jefferson’s Monticello, or taking the pulse of the present day at a town hall meeting in Vermont, an Army base in Kentucky, and the inner chambers of the Supreme Court, Kalman finds evidence of democracy at work all around us. Her route is always one of fascinating indirection, but one that captures and shares in hundreds of beautiful, colorful reasons why we are proud to be Americans.
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Oxford University Press Inc An American Odyssey
Book SynopsisOne of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to pass, Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would form the core of the American art world''s post-war marketplace. Rejecting Abstract Expressionism, he lived briefly in Paris. After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Bearden returned to New York, turning to painting just as the civil rights movement was gaining ground with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery bus boycott. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963, Bearden Trade ReviewHer adept weaving of biography and art history is richly detailed, a scholarly life's work. * Amy M. Mooney *An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden is a fascinating book, lovingly detailed and closely illustrating how its subject had to struggle, both as an artist and as a black person, to establish a place in the history of art in America. * Jim Burns, The Penniless Press *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Terms of the Debate Chapter I: Origins Chapter II: Harlem: The Promised Land Chapter III: The Evolution of a Race Man Part II: The Negro Artist's Dilemma Chapter IV: The Making of American Art Chapter V: Fame and Exile: 1945-1950 Chapter VI: A Voyage of Discovery: 1950-1960 Part III: The Prevalence of Ritual Chapter VII: Prevalence of Ritual: Part I Chapter VIII: Prevalence of Ritual: Part II Chapter IX: The Public Romare Bearden Epilogue: The Bearden Legacy
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University of Chicago Press Justice by Lottery Cloth Women in Culture and
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University of Chicago Press Russian Refuge Religion Migration and Settlement
Book SynopsisAn account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia over the last 200 years. The book focuses on six Christian groups to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in their adjustment to American culture.
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University of Chicago Press Uncivil Rights Teachers Unions and Race in the
Book SynopsisAlmost fifty years after Brown v Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. This title examines a complex relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.Trade Review"Uncivil Rights makes a major contribution to our understanding of the often fraught relationship between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly non-white) students in the nation's largest school system. Skillfully framed around changing conceptions of teachers' and students' 'rights' in public schools, this book explains - better than any other - how teachers in New York City first won and then lost recognition of their status as 'professionals' in the classrooms and communities where they work." (Adam Nelson, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
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The University of Chicago Press Citizen Speak The Democratic Imagination in
Book SynopsisWhen we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter-writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. This title argues that these activities play only a small part in democratic citizenship - a form of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.Trade Review"Citizen Speak improves our understanding of the conditions that foster active citizenship and the cultural conditions that lead citizens to be involved in politics. This book makes a convincing case that a focus on democratic imagination and talk can add crucial new dimensions to our conception of citizenship as it is practiced in today's society." - Michele Lamont, Harvard University"
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Harperchristian Resources Share the Dream Video Study
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West Academic Publishing Critical Race Theory
Book SynopsisExamines cases through the analytical framework of critical race theory. This third edition includes a new chapter on racial bias and the judiciary and a focus on fighting racism in the21st century. There is a separate chapter on torts, contracts, criminal procedure, criminal law and sentencing, property, and civil procedure.
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WW Norton & Co New York
Book SynopsisThe definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home.
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WW Norton & Co Nervous States
Book Synopsis“Wide-ranging yet brilliantly astute. . . . Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer.” — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
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Time Warner Trade Publishing A Call to Conscience
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The University of Michigan Press Politics Faith and the Making of American Judaism
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The University of Michigan Press Moisture of the Earth
Book SynopsisIntends to recount the life story of African American activist Mary Robinson. This book sheds light on African American resistance movements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling to struggles for social justice. It highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement.
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The University of Michigan Press Rights Enabled
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law.
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The University of Michigan Press Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials
Book SynopsisIn 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on Bloody Sunday, troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider's view of the three trials that took place over the following nine monthswhich finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under reneweTrade ReviewFifty years ago, American justice triumphed over the Alabama klan - thanks to the fearless work of the Civil Rights Division. Jim Turner's moving account reminds us that we can overcome the darkest attacks on human freedom, a lesson well worth remembering today as we confront new challenges to our basic civil rights."" - Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts and former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights""Jim Turner recounts the true story of how a team of skilled federal lawyers accomplished the seemingly impossible - convicting the klansmen who murdered Viola Liuzzo in 1965 - a victory for honest, non-partisan civil rights enforcement that ended a hundred years of klan immunity to the sting of justice."" - Roy Reed, New York Times reporter who covered Selma and the Liuzzo trials""James P. Turner's compelling picture of state prosecutions marred by local prejudice and the successful federal prosecution in this landmark case is a timely reminder of why we need a strong Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice when state law enforcement fails to protect our rights."" - Brian K. Landsberg, McGeorge School of Law
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University of Michigan Press For Dear Life
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The University of Michigan Press Moisture of the Earth
Book SynopsisIntends to recount the life story of African American activist Mary Robinson. This book sheds light on African American resistance movements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling to struggles for social justice. It highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement.
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The University of Michigan Press Philadelphia Freedom
Book SynopsisOffers an account of renowned civil-rights lawyer David Kairys' personal quest for achieving social justice during the turbulent 1960s and 70s. This title brings us into Kairys' law career and the struggles of the 60s as his professional and private life navigated the turmoil and promise of the civil rights and antiwar movements.
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The University of Michigan Press Mrs. Shipleys Ghost
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The University of Michigan Press Spectacles of Reform
Book SynopsisReveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s
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Penguin Putnam Inc After the Last Border
Book SynopsisThe story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America''s identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won the golden ticket to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.Mu Naw, a Christian from Myanmar struggling to put down roots with her family, was accepted after decades in a refugee camp at a time when America was at its most open to displaced families; and Hasna, a Muslim from Syria, agrees to relocate as a last resort for the safety of her family--only to be cruelly separated from her children by a sudden ban on refugees from Muslim countries. Writer and activist Jessica Goudeau tracks the human impacts of America''s
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Bill of Obligations
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Random House USA Inc How to Fight AntiSemitism
Book Synopsis“The most important book you will read this year.”—Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All ThatWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The prescient former New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it. On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock. But anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cann
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Random House USA Inc Our Malady
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America''s pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom.On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning.And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died.In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children’s future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Disillusioned
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Random House USA Inc Theres a Revolution Outside My Love
Book SynopsisThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change.“A maelstrom of grief, anger, fear and confusion, with glimmers of gratitude and hope: a comprehensive emotional document of a moment.”—New York Times Book Review Now is an extraordinary time. Across the country, people are losing their loved ones, their livelihoods, their homes, and even their own lives to COVID-19. Despite the pandemic, countless protests erupted this summer over the recurring loss of Black lives. Reverberations of shock and outrage remain with us all. There''s a Revolution Outside, My Love captures and articulates all of these roiling sentiments unleashed by a profound national reckoning. Drawing its title from a powerful letter to her son by Kirsten West Savali, the book fans out from there, offering a rich and intimate view of the change we underwent. Composed of searing letters, essays, poems, reflections, and screeds, There''s a Revolution Outside, My Love highlights the work of some of our most powerful and insightful writers who hail from across a range of backgrounds and from almost all fifty states. Among them, these writers have brought home four Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, a fistful of Whitings, and numerous citations in best American poetry, short story, and essay compilations. They are noisy with beauty, and their pieces ring louder and clearer than ever before. Galvanizing and lyrical, this is a deeply profound anthology of writing filled with pain and beauty, warmth and intimacy. A remarkable feat of empathy, There''s a Revolution Outside, My Love offers solace in a time of swirling protest, change, and violence—reminding us of the human scale of the upheaval, and providing hope for a kinder future.
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Penguin Putnam Inc We Refuse to Forget
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Alfred A. Knopf The Last Colony
Book SynopsisThe moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victoryIn 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the Uni
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
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Random House USA Inc Hit Em Where It Hurts
Book SynopsisA radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy“Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections.”—Michael Steele, former RNC chairWhy do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winning political strategies—especially as the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance in 2024? Too often the carefully constructed, rational arguments of the Left meet a grisly fate at the polls, where voters are instead swayed by Republican candidates hawking anger, fear, and resentment. Only when Democrats are handed an overwhelming motivational issue—like the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade—have they found a way to counter this ef
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