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Genocide : a reference handbook
This book presents the background and history of genocide, the key issues associated with this worldwide crime, and the problems inherent in preventing its occurrence. In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), legally defining the crime of genocide for the first time. Amazingly, the United States did not ratify this international agreement until nearly 40 years later, when President Reagan finally signed the genocide convention bill. Attempts to enforce international law against genocide did not begin until the 1990s. Genocide: A Reference Handbook examines the antecedents of the term \"genocide\" in the mid-19th century and explains the current challenges of preventing or even stopping genocide, including the nation-state system and principles of state sovereignty. The author documents how crimes of genocide have continued unchecked, and asserts that a collective commitment to humanitarian intervention is the only way to address this ongoing problem.
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Taking the Fight South
Taking the Fight South provides a timely and
telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial
justice is to be fully realized.
Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball
has written dozens of books during his career, including the
landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life ,
and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi ,
chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the
Fight South , arguably his most personal book, Ball focuses on
six years, from 1976 to 1982, when, against the advice of friends
and colleagues in New York, he and his Jewish family moved from the
Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where he received a tenured
position in the political science department at Mississippi State
University. For Ball, his wife, Carol, and their three young
daughters, the move represented a leap of faith, ultimately
illustrating their deep commitment toward racial justice.
Ball, with breathtaking historical authority, narrates the
experience of his family as Jewish outsiders in Mississippi, an
unfamiliar and dangerous landscape contending with the aftermath of
the civil rights struggle. Signs and natives greeted them with a
humiliating and frightening message: \"No Jews, Negroes, etc., or
dogs welcome.\" From refereeing football games, coaching soccer, and
helping young black girls integrate the segregated Girl Scout
troops in Starkville, to life-threatening calls from the KKK in the
middle of the night, from his work for the ACLU to his arguments in
the press and before a congressional committee for the extension of
the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ball takes the reader to a precarious
time and place in the history of the South. He was briefly an
observer but quickly became an activist, confronting white racists
stubbornly holding on to a Jim Crow white supremacist past and
fighting to create a more diverse, equitable, and just society.
Ball's story is one of an imitable advocate who didn't just
observe as a passive spectator but interrupted injustice.
Taking the Fight South will join the list of required
books to read about the Black Lives Matter movement and the history
of racism in the United States. The book will also appeal to
readers interested in Judaism because of its depiction of
anti-Semitism directed toward Starkville's Jewish community,
struggling to survive in the heart of the deep and very
fundamentalist Protestant South.
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At Liberty to Die
Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern civilization, the longer people live, the more likely they are to succumb to chronic, terminal illnesses. In 1900, the average life expectancy was 47 years, with a majority of American deaths attributed to influenza, tuberculosis, pneumonia, or other diseases. In 2000, the average life expectancy was nearly 80 years, and for too many people, these long lifespans included cancer, heart failure, Lou Gehrig's disease, AIDS, or other fatal illnesses, and with them, came debilitating pain and the loss of a once-full and often independent lifestyle. In this compelling and provocative book, noted legal scholar Howard Ball poses the pressing question: is it appropriate, legally and ethically, for a competent individual to have the liberty to decide how and when to die when faced with a terminal illness? At Liberty to Die charts how, the right of a competent, terminally ill person to die on his or her own terms with the help of a doctor has come deeply embroiled in debates about the relationship between religion, civil liberties, politics, and law in American life. Exploring both the legal rulings and the media frenzies that accompanied the Terry Schiavo case and others like it, Howard Ball contends that despite raging battles in all the states where right to die legislation has been proposed, the opposition to the right to die is intractable in its stance. Combining constitutional analysis, legal history, and current events, Ball surveys the constitutional arguments that have driven the right to die debate.
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The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Personal rights, such as the right to procreate - or not - and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from Karen Ann Quinlan through Kevorkian and just recently to the Florida case of the woman who was paralyzed by a gunshot from her mother and who had the plug pulled on herself. For the last half of the twentieth century, the justices of the Supreme Court have had to wrestle with new and difficult life and death questions for them as well as for doctors and their patients, medical ethicists, sociologists, medical practitioners, clergy, philosophers, law makers, and judges. The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans offers a look at these issues as they emerged and examines the manner in which the men and women of the U.S. Supreme Court addressed them.
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