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“mark c weber”

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  • Disability Harassment

    by Mark C. Weber ...
    Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts’ approaches to the problem of disability harassment, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    The Legal Construction of Race

    by Ian Haney Lopez ...
    Series Book 16 - Critical America
    "Remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a 'white' race at the turn of the twentieth century . . . A must-read." —Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaThe first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in ... Read more

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  • Key Facts: Employment Law

    by Chris Turner ...
    Series series Key Facts
    Key Facts is the essential series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses.Key Facts provides the simplest and most effective way for you to memorise and absorb the essential facts needed to pass your exams.Key Features:* User-friendly layout and style* Diagrams, charts and tables to illustrate key points* Summary charts at a basic level, followed by more ... Read more

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  • Genetic Discrimination

    Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response

    Edited by Gerard Quinn, Aisling de Paor, Peter Blanck ...
    As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this technology becomes more prevalent, there is a danger that genetic information may be misused by ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Development of Disability Rights Under International Law

    From Charity to Human Rights

    by Arlene S. Kanter ...
    The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality, dignity, autonomy, full participation, as well as the right to live in the community, and the right to supported decision-making and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Black Spokane

    The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

    by Dwayne A. Mack ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Violence Against Women

    Vulnerable Populations

    by Douglas A. Brownridge ...
    Series series Sociology Re-Wired
    Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping vulnerable groups of women. However, developments in the field, particularly intersectionality theory, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives

    Finding a Voice of Their Own

    by Ravi Malhotra, Morgan Rowe ...
    Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Animals, Biopolitics, Law

    Lively Legalities

    Edited by Irus Braverman ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animals, Biopolitics, Law envisions the possibility of lively legalities that move beyond the humanist ... Read more

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  • Loren Miller

    Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

    by Amina Hassan, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions effectively abolished racially restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. ... Read more

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  • Prejudicial Appearances

    The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law

    by Robert C. Post, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, Reva B. Siegel, K. Anthony Appiah ...
    In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is ... Read more

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  • Whitewashed

    America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority

    by John Tehranian ...
    Series Book 46 - Critical America
    Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights, and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity. Yet paradoxically, ... Read more

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