Human rights, civil rights

Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue-either one has it or one does not.

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States.

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K.

From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others.

When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day.

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009.

Offers reflections on how the words of a first-century Jew can offer meaning, hope, and wholeness to readers today.

Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention One week after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) repeatedly and overwhelmingly voted down resolutions congratulating fellow Southern Baptist Harry Truman on his role in Israel's creation.

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words.

The story of NAACP's sole female attorney.

Exploring the people, politics, and events that shaped Selma from 1815 through the twentieth century.

Critical studies of the prophetic voice that reshaped a nation.

Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs.

Witness the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of two children.

A pivotal in the study of history and politics, not only in Alabama but in the other states of the South Barnard's account is elegantly concise, the labor of conspicuous scholarship.

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator.

Uncover the untold story of America's 19th-century adventurers and their quest for empire.

Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.

Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965.

Winner of the Alabama Library Author Award Outside the Magic Circle tells the remarkable story of Virginia Foster Durr, a southern white woman born into privilige who (along with her husband Clifford Durr, a lawyer best known for defending Rosa Parks), nonetheless devoted her life to Civil Rights activism.

Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s.

These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement.

Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations, arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals following 9/11 resemble many historical claims for restricting civil liberties, more often than not in the name of necessity.

An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way.

On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.

An insider's record of the St.

Three centuries of faith, leadership, and community building in Alabama's Black Baptist tradition.

WINNER, LILLIAN SMITH AWARD WINNER, JAMES F.

Since the end of the Cold War, increasing numbers of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights.

Since World War II, refugee organizations have faced a recurrent challenge: the manipulation of refugees by warring parties to further their own aims.

The question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy may best be answered not from the classical sources or even from the cauldron of Middle East politics but from the lived experiences of Muslim communities around the world.

Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh.

More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two.

The democratic surge in the past twenty years has led many Americans to assume that all societies are, or should be, making progress toward becoming practicing democracies.

Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security.

This book investigates how changing norms of sovereignty may promote better governance in Africa.

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Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace.

A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationWhat can be done to combat genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity?

Never before have world order and global security been threatened by so many destabilizing factors from the collapse of macroeconomic stability to nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and tyranny.

Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution.

What electoral mobilization choices do Islamist opposition parties make?

In Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democraciesGermany and the United Kingdom.

Not only does government bureaucracy often make hiring a cumbersome, slow-moving process, but poor performers enjoy more protection from losing their jobs than their counterparts outside of government.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

Bradby's efforts as an activist and "e;race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit in the 1940s.