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"In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-- from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
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At an early age, Martin Luther King Jr. was unhappy about the unfair laws and customs that made it difficult for African Americans to live freely. Before he reached his teen years, he vowed to do something about them. As an adult, he became a preacher and civil rights leader. He told the world about his dream for racial harmony and peace in the United States. He marched, led boycotts and sit-ins, and made speeches to try to obtain civil rights for...
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights-many nearly lost to history-from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women were generally not in the headlines; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels...
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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America - the right to cast a ballot...
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First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she "had become a woman haunted by the dead." Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family's history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice.
Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey into...
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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-- “This book is essential. Don’t miss it.” —MARK LEVIN “A brilliant examination of the actual facts of the George Floyd case and the subsequent exploitation of his death by Black Lives Matter.” —LEO TERRELL, civil rights attorney & commentator In his latest salvo in the battle for America’s survival, David Horowitz exposes the racial hoax that is spawning riots and dividing the nation. Examining the twenty-six most notorious cases...
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"Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of in Montgomery, Alabama. In this incredible history, Gray takes us behind the scenes of that landmark case."--
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Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones. De ahí que nuestras democracias consideren irrazonables y prohíban aquellos requisitos que puedan restringir el goce de derechos constitucionales: una estatura...
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"Son demasiados los ciudadanos que no tienen presente la medida en que su propio bienestar es producto de un sistema de gobierno que los beneficia todos los días", escribe Cass R. Sunstein, uno de los más respetados y prolíficos constitucionalistas de nuestro tiempo, quien sitúa su análisis en los Estados Unidos, pero ahonda sobre los problemas teóricos y prácticos de la aplicación de los derechos sociales y económicos en cualquier democracia.
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12) Juicio a la exclusión: El impacto de los tribunales sobre los derechos sociales en el Sur Global
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De un tiempo a esta parte, los sistemas jurídicos de América Latina han experimentado enormes transformaciones, como la creación de nuevas prácticas de litigio orientadas al cambio social y la reforma estructural. Ante estas experiencias, impensables poco tiempo atrás en los entornos jurídicos formalistas típicos de la región, los tribunales comienzan a ofrecer respuestas originales sobre las que todavía hay mucho que investigar y otro tanto...
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"La violencia está siendo el resultado de creer diferente al otro. Los abusos sobre las minorías son comunes y constantes. La dignidad humana está siendo pisoteada por el mismo ser humano que cree tener derechos superiores sobre quien no comulga con sus ideas y principios religiosos. Sin el mínimo respeto y tolerancia hacia los demás, se defiende erróneamente una tradición o una costumbre religiosa pasando por encima de la vida de otro ser...
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This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of Michael Harris in Ferguson, Missouri, and police and civic...
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La investigación marca bien los antecedentes del tema y señala líneas importantes y ciertas, tanto para las etapas subsiguientes de futuros proyectos sobre el delito de omisión en Colombia, como para posteriores estudios sobre los mismos en el país. El objeto se ubica en el campo de la búsqueda de las fuentes doctrinales y teóricas del Derecho, que se requieren para la más ilustrada interpretación y aplicación de las normas legales en manos...
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Discrimination is harmful behavior that perpetuates inequality between individuals and consists of giving undeserved treatment to people or groups. The reason may be diverse. It corresponds to the creation of a hostile and derogatory environment, as well as forcing or encouraging others to carry out discriminatory acts. Legally, discrimination occurs when there is conduct that demonstrates exclusion or restriction, due to some characteristic of the...
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La prescripción y la caducidad son instituciones jurídicas de larga data.
La primera más vieja, la otra más joven. Su fuente está en el decurso del tiempo y la inacción de un derecho por su titular. Ambas generan efectos en las relaciones jurídicas que, como sabemos, se han diversificado y dimensionado en razón de variados factores: económicos, sociales y ni qué decir de la globalización.
Este libro desarrolla, como punto de partida,...
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The Basics of Freedom presents simple explanations of the fundamental principles that provide the foundational structure for the United States government. Breaking down each clause and paragraph, Dr. Bey explicates the natural rights that each citizen has to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and highlights the ideals pertaining to the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the civic duties of the citizens to the government....
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En el año 2001, un suceso remueve la conciencia dormida de la protagonista y descubre que ha llegado el momento de abrir los ojos y afrontar la terrible situación por la que atraviesan miles y miles de compatriotas abocados a la ilegalidad, al trabajo sumergido y a la explotación.
Apocalipsis Migratoria, nos muestra lo que verdaderamente es la inmigración: luto por un mundo donde te hiciste y ya no volverás a ver y miedo al mundo desconocido...
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En el marco de la celebración de los 200 años de la fundación de Jalisco como estado libre y soberano, esta obra investiga los orígenes de la primera Constitución jalisciense, explorando los eventos que llevaron a su creación. Comienza examinando las causas que desencadenaron la crisis del antiguo régimen en España y la reacción de las autoridades de México y Guadalajara ante el surgimiento del liberalismo, así como los efectos de la Constitución...
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