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Este libro gira en torno a la experiencia de la exitosa campaña "Sí, acepto" en Costa Rica, desde la perspectiva de algunas y algunos de sus principales protagonistas, detallando antecedentes, apoyos, estrategias de publicidad, argumentos legales, obstáculos y aprendizajes. Asimismo, tiene de telón de fondo una de las piezas jurídicas más importantes y bellas de los últimos años: la Opinión Consultiva OC-24/17 de la Corte Interamericana de...
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Since 2003, several US states have passed new laws that complicate the process of voter registration and voting. Framed as controls on voter fraud, the laws have spawned controversy in both the courts and public opinion, the latter falling along a sharp partisan divide. Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow? offers a scholarly analysis, not of the intent but rather the impact of these laws. Beginning with a historical overview of the expanding...
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On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that-beyond fifteen days-has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies,...
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An important collection of original essays that examine how Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible Man (1952), addresses the social, cultural, political, economic, and racial contradictions of America. Commenting on the significance of Mark Twain's writings, Ralph Ellison wrote that "a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our...
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A "brilliant, comprehensive collection" of scholarly essays on the importance and wide-ranging activities of southern student activism in the 1960s (Van Gosse, author of Rethinking the New Left).
Most accounts of the New Left and 1960s student movement focus on rebellions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and others northern institutions. And yet, students at southern colleges and universities also organized and acted...
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In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed. Among the most important slave revolts in colonial America, the Stono Rebellion also ranks as South Carolina's largest slave insurrection and one of...
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Firsthand accounts from the attorneys and advocates who brought the historic cases and fought to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites Us is the history of activists' passion and persistence in the struggle for marriage rights for same-sex couples in the United States, told in the words of...
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A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians
Toward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in civil rights history—bringing together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians. Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr....
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of No Place to Hide tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Glenn Greenwald's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of No Place to Hide includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Character profiles; Detailed timeline of key events;...
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In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of "targeted killing"-the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists and militants, typically via drones. A remarkable effort was made to legitimize this practice; one that most human rights experts agree is illegal and that the United States has historically condemned.
In The Drone Memos, civil rights lawyer Jameel Jaffer presents and assesses the legal...
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The sequel to From Our Side of the Fence-personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.
Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned in concentration camps. When they were finally allowed to leave, a...
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