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Attempts to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation. This volume shows how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the US Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization.

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Hatch develops a robust rhetorical theory of reconciliation and applies it to contemporary national and global efforts to redress the racialized wounds and injustices created by slavery. What emerges from this work is a profound vision for the prospects of meaningful reparation, forgiveness, and reconciliation in American race relations.

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After years of widely acknowledging race discrimination in higher education, American government leaders, university officials, and citizens question the need for civil rights policies. This study reviews evidence of past and current enforcement of civil rights in higher education.

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After years of widely acknowledging race discrimination in higher education, American government leaders, university officials, and citizens question the need for civil rights policies. This study reviews evidence of past and current enforcement of civil rights in higher education.

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This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem discusses human rights throughout and concludes with a chapter looking toward possibilities for increased rights and justice for all.

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This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem discusses human rights throughout and concludes with a chapter looking toward possibilities for increased rights and justice for all.

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With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice Is government intervention no longer required This book offers fresh insights and effective remedies for race issues in America.

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This collection offers an invaluable resource on the subject of how sex workers experience injustices and how we can mitigate this globally through a transformative vision of social justice.

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This collection offers an invaluable resource on the subject of how sex workers experience injustices and how we can mitigate this globally through a transformative vision of social justice.

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Presents a fresh angle in the study of a controversial practice, approaching the issue of torture from a cost-benefit analysis for the offending nation-state. This title examines the use of torture by the French in Algeria, the Argentines within their own borders, the Israelis in the Middle East, and the Americans in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

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China, Russia, and other nondemocratic regimes have become increasingly bold in acting as if agreed-upon international human rights standards no longer exist, or at least do not apply to them. More broadly, domestic political movements based on nationalism, religion, and popul...

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This is an accessible and readable synthesis of all available knowledge about refugee women in Britain and France, which offers a unique comparative perspective. -- .

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Just as human rights issues are commanding increasing attention on both the international and local levels, the need to establish systems for promoting these rights and implementing programs for their protection is becoming a worldwide priority.

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In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

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In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

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This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victimsincluding the deadduring the Cold War state violence in Latin America. It moves past a victim perpetrator dichotomy to focus on those whose righteous acts were beacons for good in the midst of extreme violence.

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The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

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Where policy is made depends to a large extent on how it is framed early in the process. This book discusses abortion policy in legal and political terms and analyzes how it ultimately led the courts to play a much more active role in policy development in New Jersey than in New York.

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Focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (ethno) nation that influence the dynamics of human rights conflicts in different parts of the world. This collection of essays investigates human rights conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

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This is the story of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians who fought a long and successful legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation - a gambling casino. Their defeated opponents included California's City of Indio and County of Riverside.

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This is the story of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians who fought a long and successful legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation - a gambling casino. Their defeated opponents included California's City of Indio and County of Riverside.

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