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  • Catholicism and Religious Freedom

    Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty

    The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching. In this timely new edited collection, Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt have assembled an impressive group of scholars to discuss the current ... Read more

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  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Death of Innocents

    An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

    by Helen Prejean ...
    From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O’Dell. Both were convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (O’Dell’s principal accuser was a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Bending Toward Justice

    The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

    by Gary May ...
    When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Educazione Democratica, numero 5, gennaio 2013

    Rivista di pedagogia politica

    by Autori Vari ...
    Educazione Democratica è una rivista di pedagogia politica pubblicata dalle Edizioni del Rosone e rilasciata con licenza Creative Commons. In questo numero un dossier su Dewey: educazione e bene comune. ... Read more

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  • Pulled Over

    How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the most recognizable and frequently criticized incidences of racial profiling, but, while numerous studies have shown that minorities are pulled over at ... Read more

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  • Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network

    Books beyond Borders

    by Lena Khor ...
    In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Reaping the Whirlwind

    Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It is based on interviews with the people—white and black, liberal and traditional—whose lives were caught up ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Up Against the Wall

    Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

    Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Crime and Terrorism Risk

    Studies in Criminology and Criminal Justice

    Crime and Terrorism Risk is a collection of original essays and articles that presents a broad overview of the issues related to the assessment and management of risk in the new security age. These original articles show how researchers, experts and the public are beginning to think about crime and terrorism issues in terms of a new risk paradigm that emphasizes establishing a balance between ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Nasty Women Project

    Voices from the Resistance

    by Erin Passons ...
    American Women. Their Stories. Their Resistance.The despot is perched in his tower, threatening democracy with every tweet. Vultures of big business occupy his cabinet seats, while empty-headed puppets tie the Senate to a string. With a wave of a pen, they set our rights on fire.Welcome to the new America.And who are we? We are the women of the marginalized majority. We come from every corner of ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

    The NAACP’s fight against segregated education — the first public interest litigation campaign — culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and the political and legal skills ... Read more

    $23.79 USD