Civics and citizenship

Immigration, Citizenship and Insecurity: An Australian Story explores how Australia's policies on migration and nationality have shaped citizenship and social inclusion.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence.

Tennessee has made tremendous strides in race relations since the end of de jure segregation.

How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced ';immigration detainee escorting system,' private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens.

Is public transportation a right?

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book .

What drives people to take to the streets in protest?

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time.

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism.

Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship.

The civic virtues of a seat at the table Etiquette books insist that we never discuss politics during a meal.

Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "e;citizenship.

Although media coverage often portrays young people in urban areas as politically apathetic or disruptive, this book provides an antidote to such views through narratives of dedicated youth civic engagement and leadership in Chicago, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro.

Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "e;coalitional moments"e; in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity.

In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.

Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States.

Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself.

"Die Zukunft ist offen.

This book studies Hindu nationalism and deliberates on the forms Hindu self-assertion might take in the future.

**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.

From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times.

Do you really know how the U.

One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.

The governed must know their government.

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders.

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways.

In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.

The second edition of this classic text substantially revises and extends the original, so as to take account of theoretical and policy developments and to enhance its international scope.

The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies.

From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, social attitudes towards sexuality and transgender equalities are evolving.

A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.

A thought-provoking look at how racial resentment, rather than racial prejudice alone, motivate a growing resistance among whites to improve the circumstances faced by racial minorities.

Many argue that "e;civic duty"e; explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities?

Public division is not new; in fact, it is the lifeblood of politics, and political representatives have constructed divisions throughout history to mobilize constituencies.

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and distinctive migrant communities.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst.

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic.

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote.

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "e;God gap.

The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information.

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace.

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office.

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest.

The term "e;community organizer"e; was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency.

Explores the Civil War's related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation's history.

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

David Brooks called Making Patriots "e;wise and penetrating,"e; and in an era of polarization and anger, its bracing call for love of country is more important than ever Although Samuel Johnson once remarked that "e;patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,"e; over the course of the history of the United States we have seen our share of heroes: patriots who have willingly put their lives at risk for this country and, especially, its principles.

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption.