Monday, September 30, 2013

On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions)

On Liberty
On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions)
John Stuart Mill (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars(64)

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In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.

  • Rank: #11335 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-06-19
  • Released on: 2002-06-19
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.15" h x 5.16" w x .28" l, .19 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Endtimes of Human Rights

The Endtimes
The Endtimes of Human Rights
Stephen Hopgood (Author)

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"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on aid workers, the torture and 'disappearing' of al-Qaeda suspects by American officials, the flouting of international law by states such as Sri Lanka and Sudan, or the shambles of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh, the prospect of one world under secular human rights law is receding. What seemed like a dawn is in fact a sunset. The foundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling."—from The Endtimes of Human Rights

In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights.

Historically, Hopgood writes, universal humanist norms inspired a sense of secular religiosity among the new middle classes of a rapidly modernizing Europe. Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). They were an antidote to a troubling contradiction—the coexistence of a belief in progress with horrifying violence and growing inequality. The obsolescence of that founding purpose in the modern globalized world has, Hopgood asserts, transformed the institutions created to perform it, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently the International Criminal Court, into self-perpetuating structures of intermittent power and authority that mask their lack of democratic legitimacy and systematic ineffectiveness. At their best, they provide relief in extraordinary situations of great distress; otherwise they are serving up a mixture of false hope and unaccountability sustained by “human rights” as a global brand.

The Endtimes of Human Rights is sure to be controversial. Hopgood makes a plea for a new understanding of where hope lies for human rights, a plea that mourns the promise but rejects the reality of universalism in favor of a less predictable encounter with the diverse realities of today’s multipolar world.

  • Rank: #61228 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-10-29
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.02" h x 5.98" w x .0" l, 1.12 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 232 pages

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Amnesty International 2014 Wall Calendar

Amnesty International
Amnesty International 2014 Wall Calendar
Steve Mccurry (Photographer)

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Human Rights

Featured in the Amnesty International 2014 Wall Calendar are the powerful images of renowned photojournalist Steve McCurry.

In a world filled with conflict and uncertainty, this thought-provoking calendar commemorates the important work of Amnesty International and its efforts to focus world attention on the human rights and dignity of all people. Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 2.8 million supporters, activists, and volunteers in over 150 countries and territories working together to create a safer, more peaceful world by promoting and defending human rights for all people, everywhere.
Sales of this calendar benefit Amnesty International and its programs. 

  • Rank: #195921 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-08-27
  • Released on: 2013-08-27
  • Format: Wall Calendar
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Calendar
  • 24 pages

Monday, September 23, 2013

Murder of a Little Girl

Murder of
Murder of a Little Girl
Fred Sottile (Author)
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Human Rights

Murder of a Little Girl is a Tell-All Whistle-Blower story of the corruption surrounding Jim Gilchrist and The Minuteman Project as told by over thirty people embroiled in conflict with him and his cohorts. The nonprofit Minuteman Project, which was supposed to lead the way in the Anti-Illegal Immigration Movement, took money and time from donors in all fifty States, but utilized the money to protect themselves from exposure of their many layers of fraud.
In reality, the Minuteman Project capital was siphoned off by the founder and his friends for their own personal inurement.
So reckless was their abandon of their principles, that through careless and capricious negligence, a family in Arizona including a nine year old girl was gunned down.
The blood of Brisenia Flores is not only on the hands of the shooters, it is also on the hands of those who facilitated the murderous crew.
See the evidence presented by real Anti-Illegal Immigration Activists. After being failed by lawyers, courts, and the Media, see why so many of those Activists needed the production of the book, Murder of a Little Girl.

  • Rank: #100059 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-08-24
  • Released on: 2013-08-24
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on International Law)
Marsha A. Freeman (Author), Christine Chinkin (Author), Beate Rudolf (Author)

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This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. The Convention is a key international human rights instrument and the only one exclusively addressed to women. It has been described as the United Nations' 'landmark treaty in the struggle for women's rights'.

The Commentary describes the application of the Convention through the work of its monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It comprises detailed analyses of the Preamble and each article of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol. It also includes a separate chapter on the cross-cutting substantive issue of violence against women. The sources relied on are the treaty language and the general recommendations, concluding observations and case law under the Optional Protocol, through which the Committee has interpreted and applied the Convention. Each chapter is self-contained but the Commentary is conceived of as an integral whole. The book also includes an introduction which provides an overview of the Convention and its embedding in the international law of human rights.

  • Rank: #146175 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-08-24
  • Original language: English
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  • 792 pages

Thursday, September 19, 2013

El policia: La guerra sucia no se olvida (Spanish Edition)

El policA-a
El policia: La guerra sucia no se olvida (Spanish Edition)
Rafael Rodriguez Castaneda (Author)

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"Cuando está de por medio la seguridad del Estado, no hay constituciones ni leyes que valgan una chingada."
MIGUEL NAZAR HARO
A partir de una serie de testimonios como los de Heberto Castillo, Rosario Ibarra y el soldado desertor Zacarías Osorio, entre otros muchos, en este libro se ponen en evidencia las brutales operaciones que dieron forma a la guerra sucia mexicana, de la que fue protagonista central Miguel Nazar Haro, durante los años setenta, al frente del grupo paramilitar conocido como la Brigada Blanca. Así, queda documentado de manera definitiva uno de los periodos más sórdidos de la historia reciente del país: aquella violencia cruzada en la que el Estado actuó de manera ilegal contra grupos subversivos.
En esta obra, Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda, el director del semanario Proceso, ha conseguido una original recreación de hechos y circunstancias, combinando el rigor periodístico con la narrativa excepcional propia de un thriller. El resultado es una imprescindible relectura de la tragedia que ocurrió en un país que presumía estabilidad y que se vio envuelto en la violencia, con Nazar Haro como personaje central: el implacable policía cazador de guerrilleros.

  • Rank: #75646 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-09-16
  • Released on: 2013-09-16
  • Format: Kindle eBook

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Framing the Net: The Internet and Human Rights

Framing the Net
Framing the Net: The Internet and Human Rights
Rikke Frank Jorgensen (Author)

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Human Rights

This important book examines how human rights are being applied in the digital era. The focus on 'internet freedoms' and 'internet rights' has risen considerably in recent years, and in July 2012 the first resolution on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet was adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council. This timely book suggests four framings to examine human rights challenges in an internet era: the Internet as Infrastructure, the Internet as Public Sphere, the Internet as Media and the Internet as Culture. These propositions, and the questions that arise from them, are considered in the broad context of the way human rights are translated and applied in the information society, both in academic research and the international community's policy discourse. The author points to the role of private actors vis-a-vis human rights as one of the most crucial and cross-cutting themes that needs to be addressed in order to advance human rights protection on the internet. Combining research themes that are often dealt with separately, this book will appeal to civil society organizations, journalists, and policy makers in the field of internet and communication policy making. The book's overview of internet-related academic discourse combined with human rights-based policy analysis will be useful for scholars, students, and practitioners working within these fields.

  • Rank: #114499 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-10-13
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 288 pages

Monday, September 16, 2013

Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis

Information Literacy and Social Justice
Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis
Lua Gregory (Editor), Shana Higgins (Editor)

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Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis extends the discussion of information literacy and its social justice aspects begun by James Elmborg, Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Cushla Kapitzke, Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier, and Maura Seale. Chapters address the democratizing values implicit in librarianship's professional ethics, such as intellectual freedom, social responsibility, and democracy, in relation to the sociopolitical context of information literacy. Contributors, ranging from practicing librarians to scholars of related disciplines, demonstrate how they construct intentional connections between theoretical perspectives and professional advocacy to curriculum and pedagogy. The book contributes to professional discourse on libraries in their social context, through a re-activation of the library neutrality debate, as well as through an investigation of what it means for a global citizen to be information literate in late capitalism.

  • Rank: #30124 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-09-15
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 322 pages

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Democratic Republic of Congo, The (African Arguments)

Democratic Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo, The (African Arguments)
Michael Deibert (Author)

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Human Rights

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been home to the deadliest conflicts of the postwar era and hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching towards peace but at the same time solidifying into another era of authoritarian rule under its enigmatic president, Joseph Kabila. Featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews, the narrative travels from war-torn villages in the country’s east to the pulsing capital of Kinshasa in order to bring us the voices of the Congolese and explore the complicated political, ethnic and economic geography of this tattered land. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Africa, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between, Hope and Despair sheds new light on this sprawling and often misunderstood country that has become iconic both for its great potential and dashed hopes.

  • Rank: #81359 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-09-12
  • Released on: 2013-09-12
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Heartmost Desire

The Heartmost
The Heartmost Desire
J. Neil Schulman (Author)
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Human Rights

The Heartmost Desire is author/filmmaker J. Neil Schulman's most personal book, containing his manifesto for why liberty is necessary for human self-realization and happiness, and his autobiographical description of the experiences that led him from atheism to God, but still relying on reason and rejecting religion, scripture, and faith.

From the preface and foreword by fellow Prometheus-award-winning novelist, Brad Linaweaver:

Over the years many fans of J. Neil Schulman have said they want another book by him. Sometimes you get what you ask for ... but it's not always what you think you want.

Neil Schulman is one of those writers who doesn't just write the same book over and over and over. He writes a book when he has something to say.

Neil crams more into single paragraphs than other libertarians put into entire boring tomes. He can rattle off more limitations on our supposed free speech that most of us ever consider. He can recite a list of cultural taboos to frighten the staunchest social conservative. Neil is a libertarian. So why is he so often in hot water with other libertarians, the natural audience for this book? ...

A libertarian defends the right to be wrong. It takes a lot of effort to initiate force or fraud. Short of that, the libertarian is tolerant of actions that liberals and conservatives cannot understand. But a libertarian also has the right to judge the value of values.

A libertarian can have common sense. He can weigh the good and the bad in the shadowlands where ideas have yet to be put into practice. There is one kind of libertarian who will derive no benefit from the words that follow. That is someone who has no heart.

"The Lord ain't my shepherd Cause I ain't no sheep. I'm a god in a body Not Little Bo Peep."
By Steven Vandervelde on September 4, 2013
Review of J Neil Schulman's new book, The Heartmost Desire

"The Lord ain't my shepherd
Cause I ain't no sheep.
I'm a god in a body
Not Little Bo Peep."

What is the essence of the individual human identity? We might call it the personality or the ego, that which makes me, me. Is it any less real to call it the soul, the spirit or the divine spark? I do not see why it should be, if we are talking about the same thing. Thus, the above poem could be misleading to anyone who decides not to read further.

Schulman is a philosopher, not a theologian. He writes about his own personal experience and his interpretation of that experience, and never demands that we accept his view on faith. He is not trying to create a cult following. He is attempting to open a reasoned discussion. Basically, his is telling us a story, a story about what happened to him, and what he thinks it means. We are free to take it or leave it, to accept the possibility that he believes what he is saying and not trying to fool us, or to refuse to understand and misrepresent his intention, as, unfortunately, many have done.

In the end, it does not really matter if Neil's personal understanding of his experience is true or false. It is his experience, not ours. What matters is how we chose to understand what he is telling us. No understanding will be gained by a swift and superficial reading of his thoughts.


It is crystal clear to anyone who has written poetry, to anyone how has written fiction, or told a story, that there are other forms of communication besides solid logic and hard reason.

Imagination.

  • Rank: #85248 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-09-09
  • Released on: 2013-09-09
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work

Hazard or Hardship
Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work
Jeffrey Hilgert (Author)

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Human Rights

Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. In Hazard or Hardship, Jeffrey Hilgert presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question.

Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect workers against the inherent social inequalities within the employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse as a human right, both in North America and around the world, Hilgert argues that a broader protection must be granted under a freedom of association framework. Hazard or Hardship will be a welcome resource for labor and environmental activists, trade union leaders, labor lawyers and labor law scholars, industrial relations experts, human rights advocates, public health professionals, and specialists in occupational safety and health.

  • Rank: #162945 in Books
  • Brand: Brand: ILR Press
  • Published on: 2013-08-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 224 pages
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I Believe in ZERO: Learning From the World's Children

I Believe in ZERO
I Believe in ZERO: Learning From the World's Children
Caryl M. Stern (Author)

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Human Rights

  • Rank: #78219 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-10-01
  • Released on: 2013-10-01
  • Original language: English
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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 272 pages

Friday, September 6, 2013

Religious Freedom: Why Now Defending an Embattled Human Right

Religious FreedomReligious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
Timothy Shah (Author), Matthew Franck (Editor)
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Human Rights

Religious freedom is under sustained pressure today around the world. In some places, it is fair to say that religious freedom is under siege. This book is a response to that sobering fact. Although scant attention is paid by governments, the academy, or the media, the implications of this crisis-and we contend that it is a crisis-are quite serious. A worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large-scale human suffering, grave injustice, and significant threats to international peace and security. Outside the West, tens of millions of human beings are subject to violent persecution because of their religious beliefs, or those of their tormentors. Scores of millions more are subject to serious restrictions on their religious freedom. In the West itself, including the United States, religious freedom is also under various pressures. Where intellectual and political leaders treat religious freedom with skepticism or indifference, it is not surprising to find encroaching threats to the conscience rights and the public witness of religious persons, communities, and institutions-and a failure to perceive the high importance of religious freedom in our relations with the rest of the world. For the last three years, the Witherspoon Institute's Task Force on International Religious Freedom has examined the various dimensions of the challenge faced by religious freedom, and has deliberated on the most effective policy responses that can be undertaken by the United States government, and by other governments around the world. The return of an interdisciplinary meeting of experts from the fields of psychology, sociology, law, philosophy, theology, political science, and international relations, this statement offers a robust consideration of religious freedom's present condition and the prospects for its future.

  • Rank: #7758 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-03-11
  • Released on: 2012-03-11
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  • Number of items: 1

Thursday, September 5, 2013

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court

A Documentary
A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court
Brandt Goldstein (Author), Rodger Citron (Author), Molly Beutz Land (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars(1)

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Human Rights

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court, using key litigation documents, leads the reader through the high-profile lawsuit chronicled in Storming the Court, a nonfiction title by Brandt Goldstein that tracks the lawsuit filed by human rights lawyers and Yale law students on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at the American Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following in the tradition of books such as The Buffalo Creek Disaster and A Civil Action, Storming the Court is an engaging, easy-to-read account of a complex civil trial in which law students play many of the key roles. Meticulously documented to make moving between the original book and the companion trouble-free, this lively, accessible book will provoke energetic discussion and debate among students. Suitable for use in any civil procedure course, the documentary companion:
Uses the real case to illustrate a wide array of important legal concepts , particularly those taught in first-year civil procedure;
Includes key litigation documents and other original materials from the case along with notes, comments, hypotheticals, and questions that serve as excellent teaching tools;
Features photos of the key characters in the lawsuit and of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, which further enhances the realism for students. What better way to bring litigation to life for your students and help them understand what the concepts and rules look like in practice than to follow a complex trial step-by-step. A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court takes a gripping and extremely readable book and turns it into a powerful teaching tool.

  • Rank: #9634 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-07-01
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: 9.76" h x 6.81" w x .71" l, 1.20 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 304 pages

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000--2010

Our Harsh Logic
Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000--us.html10
Breaking the Silence (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars(11)

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“One of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation.”—The New York Review of Books

Support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory—both internationally and within Israel itself—rests on the belief that the Israeli army’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza is essentially protective, aimed at safeguarding the country from terror. But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark work, which includes more than a hundred soldiers’ testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is as much offensive as defensive. In their own words, the soldiers reveal in vivid detail how key planks of the army’s program have served to accelerate Israeli acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of Palestinian independence.

Taking aim at a silence of complicity that perpetuates the justification for occupation, the soldiers who speak out here offer a gripping and immediate record of oppression. Powerful and incontrovertible, Our Harsh Logic is a supremely significant contribution to one of the world’s most vexed conflicts.

  • Rank: #105943 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-09-03
  • Released on: 2013-09-03
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • Binding: Paperback
  • 400 pages

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

"Can We All Get Along": Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics)

"Can We All Get Along?": Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics)
Paula D. McClain (Author), Joseph Stewart Jr. (Author)

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Human Rights

In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery and discrimination, issues of liberty, equality, and community continue to challenge Americans. In the sixth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr. combine traditional elements of political science analysis—history, Constitutional theory, institutions, political behavior, and policy actors —with a fully updated survey of the political status of four major groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians. The authors show similarities and differences in these groups’ political action and experience, and point the way toward coalition, competition, and consensus building in the face of ongoing conflict. Two dilemmas shape the book: How do we as a nation reconcile a commitment to equality with persistent inequality and discrimination? And what can we do about it- from the perspective of ethnic and racial minorities as well as within the dominant culture?

  • Rank: #150563 in Books
  • Brand: Brand: Westview Press
  • Published on: 2013-08-06
  • Original language: English
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  • Binding: Paperback
  • 352 pages
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Monday, September 2, 2013

For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation (Kindle Single)

For the Public Good
For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation (Kindle Single)
Belle Boggs (Author), The New New South (Editor)
5.0 out of 5 stars(3)

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Human Rights

Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts. In this personal and powerful work of longform journalism from new digital publisher The New New South, award-winning author Belle Boggs traces the chilling history of eugenics in America, tells the poignant stories of North Carolina's sterilization victims, and goes inside their decade-long fight for justice.

Belle Boggs is the author of Mattaponi Queen, a collection of linked stories that take place along Virginia’s Mattaponi River. Mattaponi Queen won the Bakeless Prize, the Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award from the Library of Virginia, was a finalist for the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, was a 2010 Kirkus Reviews top fiction debut, and was a finalist for the Library of Virginia People’s Choice Award for fiction. Boggs has received fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences and is a recipient of a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council and a 2012 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Boggs was named “Best New Southern Author” by Southern Living magazine, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Harper's, Glimmer Train, the Oxford American, Orion, the Sun, and other publications.

  • Rank: #19653 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-08-08
  • Released on: 2013-08-08
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