Civics and 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.

Red, Black, White is the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South since Robin D.

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.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles.

“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.

This book makes a significant contribution to the ongoing global conversations on the various understandings of equality.

From the moment that the attack on the "e;problem of the color line,"e; as W.

The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe.

Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

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Around the world, teaching civics is our most practical tool for learning about democracy.

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet.

This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented.

Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised freedoms to their people.

This profile of Dominican Americans closes a critical gap in information about the accomplishments of one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States.

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony.

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle.