Is civic identity in the United States really defined by liberal, democratic political principles? Or is U.S. citizenship the product of multiple traditions - not only liberalism and republicanism but also white supremacy, Anglo-Saxon supremacy, Protestant supremacy, and male su…
Is civic identity in the United States really defined by liberal, democratic political principles? Or is U.S. citizenship the product of multiple traditions - not only liberalism and republicanism but also white supremacy, Anglo-Saxon supremacy, Protestant supremacy, and male su…
A history of race and class in diverse areas in the South explores the experiences and attitudes of white Southerners during the civil rights era, as their relationships with blacks were changed forever.
A history of race and class in diverse areas in the South explores the experiences and attitudes of white Southerners during the civil rights era, as their relationships with blacks were changed forever.
Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistan…
"In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists ga…
"In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists ga…
This title tells of how African Americans, led by the NAACP, sought to capitalize on world revulsion at the white supremacist excesses of Nazi Germany to fight for human rights, but were hampered by the Cold War, which enabled powerful Southerners to misrepresent their cause as …
In this important and wide-ranging book, a leading political theorist and activist considers the question: What justifies democracy? Carlos Santiago Nino critically examines answers others have given and then develops his own distinctive theory of democracy, emphasizing its deli…
"Brazil has the largest African-descended population in the world outside Africa. Despite an economy founded on slave labor, Brazil has long been renowned as a "racial democracy." Many Brazilians and observers of Brazil continue to maintain that racism there is very mild or none…
This book explores the lives of five Americans who agitated for greater freedom in America. It makes two central observations: each believed that government must broadly tolerate individual autonomy and, each argued that religious orthodoxy has been a major source of society's i…
Explores the lives of five Americans who agitated for greater freedom in America, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Just six weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress overwhelmingly approved the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, better known by its a…
Stellingen worden uitgewerkt in een drietal hoofdstukken. De eerste stelling is dat sociale relaties tussen de seksen zodanig georganiseerd zijn dat mannen overheersen en vrouwen zich onderwerpen. De relatie is een seksuele relatie. De ideen over sekseverschillen zorgen ervoor d…
