Civics and citizenship

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity.

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discriminationbut ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Courts landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v.

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B.

Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.

This book documents and analyses how outsourcing of teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is practised, arising issues therein, and how to address them, through the frame of policy enactment theory.

Die Bedeutung der Religion für Staat und Gesellschaft ist eine Frage, die die Politische Theorie seit ihren Anfängen begleitet hat.

This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa's existential predicament.

Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations.

Why do more people vote--or get involved in other civic and political activities--in some communities than in others?

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women?

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (19362013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney.

Liberal neutrality has two underlying intuitions and therefore two distinct elements.

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals.

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era.

The past decades public interest in history is booming.

This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries.

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice?

Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s-1970s.

Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations.

Although the moral and ethical dimensions of NATO presence in Afghanistan has been the focus of debate by politicians and media alike, questions of the religious culture and spirituality that underlie the complexities of both the conflict and convictions of those affected have rarely been discussed.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity.

This book examines John Locke as a theorist of migration, immigration, and the movement of peoples.

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history.

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

In the routine spectrum of our lives, we inhabit the public sphere.

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.

'Dawn Butler is a history-making, game-changing, ceiling-smashing politician.

Sprache ist nicht neutral, sondern sie übt Wirkungen und Verletzungen aus und ist eingebettet in die jeweilige individuelle Konstruktion der sozialen Wirklichkeit.

This fresh and invigorating analysis illuminates the often-neglected story of early African American civil rights activism.

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world.

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans.

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching.

“One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict” from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!

Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world.

German-American women played many roles in the US women s rights movement from 1848 to 1890.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

In a time of political turmoil, how should we pray?

Starke Frauen, gute Geschichten: In Porträts und Reportagen erzählt Karim El-Gawhary vom Leben in den dunklen Zeiten der Diktatur, während der Aufstände und in der heutigen arabischen Welt.

In Patriotism and Piety, Jonathan Den Hartog argues that the question of how religion would function in American society was decided in the decades after the Constitution and First Amendment established a legal framework.