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Violence all around
\"A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe, before and after the September 11 attacks, to document abuses committed by warlords, terrorist groups, and government counterterrorism forces. Whether reporting on al Qaeda safe houses, the mechanics of the Pentagons smartest bombs, his interviews with politicians and ordinary civilians, or his own brush with death outside Kabul, John Sifton wants to help us understand violence--what it is, and how we think and speak about it\"--Dust jacket flap.
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression.A Voice That Could Stir an Armyis a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change.
Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and recent interviews with Hamer's friends, family, and fellow activists, Maegan Parker Brooks moves chronologically through Hamer's life. Brooks recounts Hamer's early influences, her intersection with the black freedom movement, and her rise to prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brooks also considers Hamer's lesser-known contributions to the fight against poverty and to feminist politics before analyzing how Hamer is remembered posthumously. The book concludes by emphasizing what remains rhetorical about Hamer's biography, using the 2012 statue and museum dedication in Hamer's hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi, to examine the larger social, political, and historiographical implications of her legacy.
The sustained consideration of Hamer's wide-ranging use of symbols and the reconstruction of her legacy provided within the pages ofA Voice That Could Stir an Armyenrich understanding of this key historical figure. This book also demonstrates how rhetorical analysis complements historical reconstruction to explain the dynamics of how social movements actually operate.
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The Price of Rights
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.
Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries.
The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.
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Civil-rights activists
Briefly surveys the history of people of African origin who worked against racism and injustice and profiles notable figures from Sojourner Truth to the present, including Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were
instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently,
though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed
texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind
anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirty-nine
full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle was
at its most intense.
Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and
important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known
activists as Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Lillian
Smith, Mamie Till-Mobley, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Height, and
Rosa Parks. They also include speeches from lesser-known but
influential leaders such as Della Sullins, Marie Foster, Johnnie
Carr, Jane Schutt, and Barbara Posey.
Nearly every speech was discovered in local, regional, or
national archives, and many are published or transcribed from
audiotape here for the first time. Houck and Dixon introduce each
speaker and occasion with a headnote highlighting key biographical
and background details. The editors also provide a general
introduction that places these public addresses in context.
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 gives voice
to stalwarts whose passionate orations were vital to every phase of
a movement that changed America.
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Free all along : the Robert Penn Warren civil rights interviews
\"A collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Conflicting Commitments
InConflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.
Conflicting Commitmentsreveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers-both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States.
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Schooling the Movement
A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil
rights movement
Southern Black educators were central contributors and activists
in the civil rights movement. They contributed to the movement
through their classrooms, schools, universities, and communities.
Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research,
Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical activism
and vital contributions of Black teachers throughout the Black
freedom struggle. By illuminating teachers' activism during the
long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors connect
the past with the present, contextualizing teachers' longstanding
role as advocates for social justice. Schooling the
Movement moves beyond the prevailing understanding that
activism was defined solely by litigation and direct-action forms
of protest. The contributors broaden our conceptions of what it
meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights
movement.
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