Mississippi Burning (1988)
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When a group of civil rights workers goes missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents Alan Ward...
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
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This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a...
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Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
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As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment -...
Domestic Workers of the World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights
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From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers'...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in Books
Sep 16, 2017
Since the civil rights movements and traced back to its origins from the Jim Crow laws, Michelle Alexander discusses how the prison and judicial system is basically used to force African Americans into an underclass. They are not entitled to jobs, housing, benefits and even voting in some cases, stripping them of human rights well after punishment. As 'criminals' they are vilified by all alike thus continually treated like scum.
For others, it's a situation of arresting African Americans en masse for drug crimes, also committed by their white counterparts but are conveniently ignored.
And police forces around the country are continually given bigger budgets to carry out such arrests to bolster their credentials. It can be seen as a racket in many situations. Disturbing but a must-read.
Intellectual Property Enforcement: A Commentary on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
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This important book is the first detailed analytical treatment of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...
Autobiography of Malcolm X
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They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Celebrated and vilified the world over for...
Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
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Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he...
Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
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The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically...
Five Ideas to Fight for: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters
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- Human Rights - Equality - Free Speech - Privacy - The Rule of Law These five ideas are vitally...