Search Results - "Libération"

Canarsie the Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against liberalism / by Rieder, Jonathan

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Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…The reformer's mural : the liberal penal imagination -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York --…”
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The Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict intellectual struggles between Blacks and Jews at mid-century / by Harris, Glen Anthony, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…In the first decades of the twentieth century -- From Franz Boas to Richard Wright -- The 1940s: impeded perceptions -- Liberalism and identity in post-war America -- The commentary factory -- What once was old is now new -- The radicalization of the civil rights movement -- What liberal alliance? …”
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City of disorder how the quality of life campaign transformed New York politics / by Vitale, Alex S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conceptualizing the paradigm shift -- Defining the "quality of life" paradigm -- Defining urban liberalism -- The rise of disorder -- Globalization and the urban crisis -- The transformation of policing -- The community backlash -- Conclusion.…”
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Christianity and culture in the city a postcolonial approach /

Table of Contents: “…Nickens -- Revelation 12-13: a guerilla reading / Charlene Sinclair -- Church, the city, and its mission in the 21st century: a view from the margins / Elieser Valentin -- Praxis of integral liberation in a (post) colonial world a critical and compelling conversation / David Traverzo.…”
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The urban voter group conflict and mayoral voting behavior in American cities / by Kaufmann, Karen M., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a theory of local voting behavior -- Group interest theory and local elections -- From rioting to Watergate: Los Angeles, 1969 and 1973 -- Tough enough to turn L.A. around :Los Angeles, 1973 to 1993 -- Vote your hopes, not your fears : New York, 1965 to 1993 -- Racial conflict and retrospective voting -- Down but not out : A liberal revival in 2001 -- Changing urban politics in the new millennium.…”
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Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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This changes everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: how Occupy Wall Street changes everything / Sarah van Gelder -- How Occupy Wall Street really got started / Andy Kroll -- Enacting the impossible: making decisions by consensus / David Graeber -- Principles of solidarity -- The chills of popular power: the first month of Occupy Wall Street / Marina Sitrin -- Claiming space for diversity at Occupy Wall Street / Hena Ashraf -- Declaration of the occupation of New York City -- No leaders, no violence: what diversity of tactics means for Occupy Wall Street / Nathan Schneider -- The most important thing in the world / Naomi Klein -- How inequality poisons society and equity benefits everyone : an interview with Richard Wilkinson / Brooke Jarvis -- Six ways to liberate main street from Wall Street / David Korten -- A fair tax system: three places to start / Chuck Collins -- How to create living-wage jobs that are good for the planet / Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel -- How to put the rights of people and nature over corporate rights / Thomas Linzey and Jeff Reifman -- Going to the streets to get things done / Ralph Nader -- The occupation of hope: letter to a dead man / Rebecca Solnit -- 10 ways to support the occupy movement / Sarah van Gelder.…”
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Forming American Politics : Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania / by Tully, Alan, 1943-

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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

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Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive /

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