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Civil Rights(2019) WEST, ROBIN L. (GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON DC)The book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society. We are all entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality educVezava: Mehka43,24 € -
Reimagining the National Security State(2019)This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. This book will appeal to readers who wantVezava: Mehka35,51 € -
Now Peru Is Mine(2016) LLAMOJHA MITMA, MANUEL,HEILMAN, JAYMIE PATRICIANow Peru is Mine is the account of the life of Manuel Llamojha Mitma, one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. His compelling life story covers nearly eight decades, providing a window into many key developments in Peru'sVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Our Minds on Freedom(2020) FRYSTAK, SHANNONExplores the organisational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to the 1960s. Shannon Frystak highlights a diverse group of courageous women who fought alongside their brothers and fathers, uncles and cousVezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Challenging U.S. Apartheid(2006) GRADY-WILLIS, WINSTON A.A history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who taVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Unfree Exercise of Religion(2018) FOX, JONATHAN (BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL)In The Unfree Exercise of Religion Jonathan Fox examines how we understand concepts like religious discrimination and religious freedom, and why countries discriminate. He makes a study of religious discrimination against 597 religious minorities in 177 cVezava: Mehka60,83 € -
Queen of America Goes to Washington City(1997) BERLANT, LAURENFocuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of publicVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Portable Frederick Douglass(2016) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKThe life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His influence was felt in the political sphere, major social movements, literary culture, and even international affairs. This iVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Light of Truth(2014) WELLS, IDAThrough brilliant social analysis, the author exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic progress in the southern USA. This book tells her story.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Loving Before Loving(2021) LESTER, JOAN STEINAUBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v.Vezava: Trda39,90 € -
Why White Liberals Fail(2022) BADGER, ANTHONY J.Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanVezava: Trda39,72 € -
Trigger Warning(2016) HUME, MICKConcise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the ‘wrong’ thing? ‘I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd’ GuardianVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Revolutionary Routines(2021) PEDWELL, CAROLYNThrough its account of influential socio-political processes – such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new technologies of governance, and the operation of digital media and algorithms – Revolutionary Routines rethinks not oVezava: Mehka49,88 €










