Justice, Power, and Politics – serie
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127 produkter
Power to the Poor
Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
Häftad, 2015
459 kr
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The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished …
Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Av Dan Berger
Häftad, 2016
410 kr
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In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression …
Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement
Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Häftad, 2016
445 kr
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In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally …
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Häftad, 2016
400 kr
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In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this …
Rise of the Arab American Left
Activists, Allies, and Their Fight Against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American organizations and examining the emerging alliances …
Rise of the Arab American Left
Activists, Allies, and Their Fight Against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s
Häftad, 2017
400 kr
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In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American organizations and examining the emerging alliances …
Latino City
Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
Av Llana Barber
Inbunden, 2017
1157 kr
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By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos—mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans—currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II …
Latino City
Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
Av Llana Barber
Häftad, 2017
458 kr
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By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos—mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans—currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II …
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, …
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960
Häftad, 2017
429 kr
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In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, …
Criminalization of Black Children
Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
Häftad, 2018
305 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet …
Criminalization of Black Children
Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945
Inbunden, 2018
1034 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet …
Political Education
Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s
Inbunden, 2018
1230 kr
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In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities …
Political Education
Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities …
Lethal State
A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
Av Seth Kotch
Inbunden, 2019
1230 kr
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For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state …
Lethal State
A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
Av Seth Kotch
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state …
Caging Borders and Carceral States
Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
Inbunden, 2019
1317 kr
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This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. …
Caging Borders and Carceral States
Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. …
Poll Power
The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
Inbunden, 2019
1230 kr
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Creating and sustaining a social movement costs money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists convinced non-profit foundations to donate in support of voter education and registration efforts. One result was the Voter Education Project (VEP), which formally …
Poll Power
The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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Creating and sustaining a social movement costs money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists convinced non-profit foundations to donate in support of voter education and registration efforts. One result was the Voter Education Project (VEP), which formally …
No Mercy Here
Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Av Sarah Haley
Häftad, 2019
415 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, …
Stirrings
How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
Inbunden, 2019
1230 kr
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In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether …
Stirrings
How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
Häftad, 2019
473 kr
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In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether …
Race for Profit
How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Inbunden, 2019
438 kr
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after …
Those Who Know Don't Say
The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Inbunden, 2020
1230 kr
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Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. The book examines efforts to …
Those Who Know Don't Say
The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Häftad, 2020
356 kr
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Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. The book examines efforts to …
Democracy's Capital
Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s–1970s
Inbunden, 2019
1230 kr
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From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for …
Democracy's Capital
Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s–1970s
Häftad, 2019
196 kr
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From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for …
Remaking Black Power
How Black Women Transformed an Era
Häftad, 2019
417 kr
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In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought …
Knocking on Labor's Door
Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Av Lane Windham
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different …
