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“michael a ross”

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  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

    Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

    by Michael A. Ross ...
    In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

    Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

    by Michael A. Ross ...
    In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Anatomy of Injustice

    A Murder Case Gone Wrong

    by Raymond Bonner ...
    The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Writing to Save a Life

    The Louis Till File

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • License to Harass

    Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech

    by Laura Beth Nielsen ...
    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or should it be banned?In this elegantly written book, Laura Beth Nielsen ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

    Democratizing Higher Education in America

    by Lani Guinier ...
    A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our democracy rather than privileging individual elitesStanding on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy. But as acclaimed scholar and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Genetic Privacy and Discrimmination

    An Overview of Selected Major Issues

    by Eugene Oscapella ...
    Like advances in many fields, those involving genetics bring both benefits and dangers to society. Among the promised benefits is the ability to identify health issues earlier than is now the case and the improve the prospects of successful prevention and treatment. In addition, forensic applications of genetic technologies have proven a powerful tool of criminal investigation. The dangers of ... Read more

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  • A true story of mobbing. Unfair charges to frame a temp

    by Francesco Orbitello ...
    An agile technical guide, easy to read, to share as much as possible in all workplaces to raise awareness of a widespread phenomenon across a true story.The protagonist of this story, in order to protect themselves from a "Sheriff" manager, managed to get a written act of intervention by the Minister. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

    by Mumia Abu-Jamal ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed.Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity.Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform it.The national Black Lives Matter movement continues to grow and intensify in response to news of police ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Shades of Freedom

    Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process

    by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. ...
    Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham ... 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

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