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Offers an accessible reader that combines theory with historical and contemporary case studies that encourage students to apply their theoretical understandings of justice to real world issues.

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Attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system.

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This book traces the story of the civil rights movement through the written and spoken words of those who participated in it. The burgeoning interest in the civil rights movement argues for such a work, and the need to have the experience of the movement in the participants' own words demands it.

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Arguing that there is a necessary connection between liberty and truth, this book excoriates the press, claiming that it exists primarily for its own purposes and agendas and only incidentally to promote the honest interplay of facts and ideas.

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Presenting case studies by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and environmental specialists, Lost in the Long Transition critically examines the impact of neoliberal economic and social policies at the local level in post-dictatorship Chile. Topics include priva...

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Managing Migration presents the valuable results of the Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration project, a bottom-up effort to identify models and best practices for spurring economic development and respect for human rights in migrant countries of origin.

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Introduces the story of Martin Luther King to a generation who are too young to remember the events of the Civil Rights movement. This biography traces the story of the man who took on the entrenched racism of the South - and North - through a non-violent movement that changed the course of American history.

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Mexico's Unrule of Law: Human Rights and Police Reform Under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice reforms. Using Mexico City as a case study of the social and institutional realities, Niels Uildriks focuses on the evolving police and justice system within t...

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First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" has exerted an enormous influence on philosophical and political thought. This title is part of Continuum's "Reader's Guides" that offers an introduction to this classic work of philosophy.

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First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" has exerted an enormous influence on philosophical and political thought. This title is part of Continuum's "Reader's Guides" that offers an introduction to this classic work of philosophy.

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Assesses the nature of minority rights protection in post-communist Europe and evaluates the impact of domestic institutions on the operation of the European Minority Rights Regime

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Assesses the nature of minority rights protection in post-communist Europe and evaluates the impact of domestic institutions on the operation of the European Minority Rights Regime

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Modern Power and Free Speech takes a socio-political approach to question the application of the First Amendment in cases dealing with the speech rights of disempowered groups. Combining legal analysis, First Amendment theory, feminist theory, and political theory, Chris Demaske addresses the inadequacies of current free-speech doctrine.

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With the end of the Cold War, any of the world's stateless peoples could be in tomorrow's headlines. This book provides a useful guide to the stateless nations suppressed or ignored during the Cold War. It draws upon more than 200 national surveys to highlight a range of factors.

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Focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the 13th and 17th centuries: the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, and the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights.

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Shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society

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Neo-Socialist Property Rights studies urban dwellers desire for housing ownership and how their acquiring and defending of property rights reshape the state-property-family relationality in neo-socialist China. This book links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.

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Our definition of American patriotism needs to be expanded beyond national celebrations. Identifying four competing forms of patriotism-celebratory, mythic, active, and critical-allows us to rediscover forgotten histories and reframe familiar ones like the Revolution and the C...

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Seven leading political philosophers grapple with the key question of contemporary political philosophy: articulating universal human rights that always apply in all cultures.

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In a sure-to-be-controversial analysis, the author argues that there is a true debt owed by White America to Black America, that this debt is significant, and that it has now come due.

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