"Where do rights come from? Are they invented or discovered? What sort of rights are there and who is entitled to them? How can rights be protected? In this comprehensive and accessible introduction, Tom Campbell introduces and critically examines the key philosophical debates a…
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"In [this book], Chris Armstrong provides a critical account of contemporary egalitarian theories. He challenges their focus on issues of choice and personal responsibility, and questions their ability to address the major inequalities that characterize the contemporary world, b…
"In [this book], Chris Armstrong provides a critical account of contemporary egalitarian theories. He challenges their focus on issues of choice and personal responsibility, and questions their ability to address the major inequalities that characterize the contemporary world, b…
Assessing the major perspectives that social analysts have relied on to explain race and racial relations, Bonilla-Silva labels the post-civil rights ideology as color-blind racism: a system of social arrangements that maintain white privilege at all levels. His analysis of raci…
Assessing the major perspectives that social analysts have relied on to explain race and racial relations, Bonilla-Silva labels the post-civil rights ideology as color-blind racism: a system of social arrangements that maintain white privilege at all levels. His analysis of raci…
"The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed"--.
Human rights against the maelstroms -- Human rights, capitalism, and the ends of economic life -- Remaking sovereignty in the image of human rights -- Human rights beyond the rule of law -- Decolonizing human rights -- Human rights otherwise -- The subjects of human rights -- Hu…
Nunavut - Inuit regain control of their lands and their lives
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"This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edit…
This work of historical sociology revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic (1870-1914), when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. It explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especiall…
"Demolishing the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court's doctrine of state action killed Reconstruction, Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow"-- "American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinel…
The Civil War and Reconstruction were characterized by two lasting legacies -- the failure to bring racial harmony to the South and the failure to foster reconciliation between the North and South. The nation was left with a festering race problem, as a white-dominated society a…
"In Legislating Racism, historian and civil rights scholar Thomas Adams Upchurch offers a pioneering study of the Fifty-first Congress's exhaustive debates and legislative approaches to America's racial problems."--Jacket.
The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era's most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the Environment in A…