Civics and citizenship

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University.

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University.

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States.

Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony.

Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history.

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While much has been written about the Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Named the American Political Science Association's Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics for 2014When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to mind.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech.

The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning.

Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them.

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing.

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare.

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security.

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v.

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs.

Drawing on speeches, essays, sermons, reminiscences, and works of theological speculation from 1800 to 1950, Christopher Z.

The explosive rise in the U.

In legislatures, group dynamics affect how the legislature operates, who is valued enough to play a critical decision-making role, and what voices matter in determining policy outcomes.

Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v.

In this groundbreaking work, Kamal Sadiq reveals that most of the world's illegal immigrants are not migrating directly to the US, but to countries in the vast developing world, where they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly easily.

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "e;carpetbagger,"e; best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B.

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In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy.

In "e;Letter from Birmingham Jail,"e; Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change.

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v.

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.

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time.

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v.

We love freedom.

American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "e;domestic, dependent nations"e; within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States.