Search Results - "Root

Transnational roots of the civil rights movement African American explorations of the Gandhian repertoire / by Chabot, Sean, 1969-

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Twilight people one man's journey to find his roots / by Houze, David, 1965-

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Radio Free Dixie Robert F. Williams and the roots of Black power / by Tyson, Timothy B.

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Schooling Jim Crow : the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics / by Driskell, Jay Winston, 1973-

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Rethinking rights historical, political, and philosophical perspectives /

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Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / by Boyett, Patricia Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: roots of revolt -- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays -- Massive resistance and the making of the movement -- Freedom days and white knights -- Operation freedom summer -- Wars of attrition -- War on the white knights and the white city -- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan -- Stalemate -- Epilogue: road to redemption.…”
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Equality under the Constitution : Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment / by Baer, Judith A.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Equality in the American context -- The roots of equal protection -- Equality and the Reconstruction congress -- From equal protection to suspect classification -- When equal is not the same -- The question of age -- The rights of the disabled -- Gay rights and the courts -- Toward a theory of constitutional equality -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of cases.…”
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Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? …”
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Historicizing Roma in Central Europe : between critical whiteness and epistemic injustice / by Shmidt, Victoria R., Jaworsky, Bernadette N.

Table of Contents: “…Whiteness: a locus for doing race -- Obscure racism: from national indifference to whitening Roma -- The post-socialist shift in pathologizing: from disabled Roma to disabled socialism -- The limits and options of historical narratives concerning Roma in Central Europe -- The inception of whiteness: the Grellmannian intersections of European Roma -- Global racial order comes to Central Europe: the puzzle of "white gypsies" at the dawn of the twentieth century -- The institutionalization of a racialized approach to Roma in the 1920s-1940s: rooting the stigma of an insecure population -- In (re)search of inclusion: Roma under the pressure of de-historicizing between the 1950s and 1990s…”
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The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities in national context

Table of Contents: “…The Strasbourg Court, democracy and the protection of marginalised individuals and minorities / Dia Anagnostou -- Protecting individuals from minorities and other vulnerable groups in the european court of human rights, litigation and jurisprudence : the case of Bulgaria / Yonko Grozev, Daniel Smilov and Rashko Dorosiev -- Protecting individuals from minorities and vulnerable groups in the european court of human rights : litigation and jurisprudence in France / Emmanuelle Bribosia, Isabelle Rorive and Amaya Úbeda de Torres -- The protection of marginalised individuals and minorities in Germany : the role of national and european judicial mechanisms / Christoph Gusy and Sebastian Müller -- The european court of human rights in Greece : litigation, rights protection and vulnerable groups / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- Protecting individuals belonging to minority and other vulnerable groups in the european court of human rights : litigation and jurisprudence in the Italian system / Serena Sileoni -- Protecting marginalised individuals and minorities in the ECtHR : litigation and jurisprudence in Turkey / Dilek Kurban -- The europen court of human rights in the UK : litigation, rights protection and minorities / Susan Millns, Christopher Rootes, Clare Saunders and Gabriel Swain -- Conclusions / Yorgos Kaminis.…”
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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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Courts in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…From quietism to incipient activism: the institutional and ideological roots of rights adjudication in Chile Lisa Hilbink and Javier Couso; 5. …”
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