Are Prisons Obsolete (Open Media Series)

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series)
Angela Y. Davis (Author)
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young (Author)
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Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
Michael Lowy (Author)

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The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Steve Fraser (Author)
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Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Lidwien Kapteijns (Author)
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A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions

A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions
Elias Castillo (Author)

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Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev

Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev
Andrey Kurkov (Author), Sam Taylor (Translator)
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Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Author)
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Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)

Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
Michelle M. Nickerson (Author)
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On Liberty

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill (Author), Will Jonson (Editor)
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Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World
Ralph A. Weisheit (Author), Frank Morn (Author)

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A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (Asian Arguments)

A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (Asian Arguments)
Andrew MacGregor Marshall (Author)

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Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Kirsten Weld (Author)

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In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America.

The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.

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• Published on: 2014-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
Human Rights Watch (Author), Kenneth Roth (Introduction)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.

• Rank: #57724 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Released on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
Melinda Chateauvert (Author)

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A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
 
Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America’s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex workers as savvy political organizers—not as helpless victims in need of rescue.
 
Even before transgender sex worker Sylvia Rivera threw a brick and sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, these trailblazing activists and allies challenged criminal sex laws and “whorephobia,” and were active in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition.
 
Although the multibillion-dollar international sex industry thrives, the United States remains one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution, and these discriminatory laws put workers at risk. In response, sex workers have organized to improve their working conditions and to challenge police and structural violence. Through individual confrontations and collective campaigns, they have pushed the boundaries of conventional organizing, called for decriminalization, and have reframed sex workers’ rights as human rights.
 
Telling stories of sex workers, from the frontlines of the 1970s sex wars to the modern-day streets of SlutWalk, Chateauvert illuminates an underrepresented movement, introducing skilled activists who have organized a global campaign for self-determination and sexual freedom that is as multifaceted as the sex industry and as diverse as human sexuality. 

• Rank: #107133 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-07
• Released on: 2014-01-07
• Original language: English
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• 272 pages

The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)

The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Fredrick Harris (Author)
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The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.

In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible. The path to his presidency began just before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when black leaders began to discuss strategies to make the most of their new access to the ballot. Some argued that black voters should organize into a cohesive, independent bloc to promote both targeted and universal polices; others urged a more race-neutral approach, working together with other racial minorities as well as like-minded whites. This has been the fundamental divide within black politics ever since. At first, the gap did not seem serious. But the post-civil-rights era has accelerated a shift towards race-neutral politics. Obama made a point of distancing himself from older race-conscious black leaders, such as Jesse Jackson- and leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus-even though, as Harris shows, he owes much to Jackson's earlier campaigns for the White House. Unquestionably Obama's approach won support among whites, but Harris finds the results troublesome. The social problems targeted by an earlier generation of black politicians--racial disparities in income and education, stratospheric incarceration and unemployment rates--all persist, yet Obama's election, ironically, marginalized those issues, keeping them off the political agenda. Meanwhile, the civil-rights movement's militancy to attack the vestiges of racial inequality is fading.

Written by one of America's leading scholars of race and politics, The Price of the Ticket will reshape our understanding of the rise of Barack Obama and the decline of a politics dedicated to challenging racial inequality head on.

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• Published on: 2014-01-02
• Original language: English
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• 240 pages

Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda (Africa and the Diaspora)

Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda (Africa and the Diaspora)
Susan Thomson (Author)

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For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting "one Rwanda for all Rwandans." Examining how ordinary rural Rwandans experience and view these policies, Whispering Truth to Power challenges the conventional wisdom on postgenocide Rwanda.            Susan Thomson finds that many of Rwanda's poorest citizens distrust the local officials charged with implementing the state program and believe that it ignores the deepest problems of the countryside: lack of land, jobs, and a voice in policies that affect lives and livelihoods. Based on interviews with dozens of Rwandan peasants and government officials, this book reveals how the nation's disenfranchised poor have been engaging in everyday resistance, cautiously and carefully—"whispering" their truth to the powers that be. This quiet opposition, Thomson argues, suggests that some of the nation's most celebrated postgenocide policies have failed to garner the grassroots support needed to sustain peace.

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• Published on: 2013-11-26
• Original language: English
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• 288 pages

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Professor Alexander Laban Hinton (Editor, Contributor), Thomas La Pointe (Editor), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Editor), A. Dirk Moses (Contributor), Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Contributor), Daniel Feierstein (Contributor), Donna-Lee Frieze (Contributor), Mato Nunpa (Contributor), Walter Richmond (Contributor), Adam Jones (Contributor), Hannibal Travis (Contributor), Krista Hegburg (Contributor)

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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

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• Published on: 2013-12-18
• Released on: 2013-11-us.html
• Original language: English
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• 248 pages

Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)

Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
Thomas Paine (Author)
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One of Paine's greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, and other social reforms.

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• Published on: 1999-05-14
• Released on: 1999-05-14
• Original language: English
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• 256 pages

Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)

Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)
Diana Allan (Author)

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Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four generations—as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their collective culture in exile.

Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan––pragmatically and speculatively—for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering, emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local pressures.

What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents new possibilities for the future of the community.

• Rank: #167055 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .69" h x 6.14" w x 8.97" l, .98 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages