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Our Townby Cynthia Carr
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 11.99The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy. Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic... more...
Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994by Fredrick C. Harris; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman; Brian D. McKenzie
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 18.00This first-ever study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement demonstrates that the changes in black activism since the civil rights movement are characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other, which creates countervailing forces. more...
Right to Rideby Blair L. M. Kelley
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 59.95Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores African Americans' organized efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance. more...
Rights at Riskby David K. Shipler
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.99An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy. Shipler demonstrates how the violations tamper with America’s safety in unexpected ways. While a free society... more...
The Ethical Subject of Securityby J. Peter Burgess
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 44.95While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ?securitization? and other security practices take place. more...
On Libertyby John Stuart Mill
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95In his treatise On Liberty (1859) Mill argues that in the past the danger had been that monarchs held power at the expense of the common people and the struggle was one of gaining liberty by limiting such governmental power. But now that power has largely passed into the hands of the people at large through democratic forms of government, the danger is that the majority denies liberty to individuals, whether explicitly through laws, which he calls 'acts of public authority', or more subtly through morals and social pressure, which he calls 'collective opinion'. more...
From Writing To Computersby Julian Warner
Routledge 1994; US$ 230.00Warner takes as his central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and computers. Throughout the approach is based on semiotics but also draws on linguistics, informat- ion science, philosophy and automata studies. more...
Spoken Soulby John Russell Rickford; Russell John Rickford
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 15.95In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English " Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." – Ralph W. Fasold , Georgetown university "A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all who value and question language." – Kirkus Reviews "Spoken Soul is a must read for anyone who is interested in the connection between language and identity." – Chicago Defender Claude Brown called Black English "Spoken Soul." Toni Morrison said, "It's a love, a passion. Its function is like a preacher’s: to make... more...
Free Speechby Alan Haworth
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95Alan Haworth situates the main arguments for free speech by tracing their relationship to contemporary debates in politics and political philosophy, concentrating most on the thoughts of John Stuart Mill. more...
Massacre at the Champ de Marsby David Andress
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 45.00On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris opened fire on a crowd of protesters: citizens believing themselves patriots trying to save France from the reinstatement of a traitor king. To the National Guard and their political superiors the protesters were the dregs of the people, brigands paid by counter-revolutionary aristocrats. Politicians and journalists declared the National Guard the patriots, and their action a heroic defence of the fledgling Constitution. more...









