Assessing Stalinist policy toward Jews, this book reveals the suppression of free expression of Jewish life, the forced assimilation of Soviet Jews, and the purging of Jews from official positions. It reveals the effort by Stalin to weed out Jews from prominent positions in the arts, sciences, and professional life.
Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
This work tells the stories, in their own words, of the New Orleans civil rights workers who fought the racial terrorism that scarred so much of the South in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. The accounts span three generations of activists, tracing their risks, triumphs and disappointments.
Race Relations in South Africa and the United States
Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice, however, the structures of consciousness which gave rise to and nurtured a system of white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring. In What Racists Believe, Gerhard Schutte examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained, revealing a range of social constructions and typifications of blacks. He concludes with a chapter comparing contemporary racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States.
The Supreme Court and Minorities in Contemporary America
Studies the role of the US Supreme Court in race relations policy. This work argues that the Supreme Court considers the disadvantages imposed on whites - and not the character of harm suffered by blacks - to determine the measure of relief that it grants victims of racial injustice.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist British intellectual culture. Pursuing her subject with literary, historical and psychological analyses, she argues that this anti-semitism must be understood in terms of its metaphorical link with mysogyny.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
How typical of his generation was T.S. Eliot when he complained that Hitler made an intelligent anti-semitism impossible for a generation? In her new book, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women, novelist and critic, Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist, British intellectual culture. Pursuing her ......
In this timely contribution to the debates on citizenship, Elizabeth Meehan provides an incisive analysis of the meaning of citizenship, and the links between civil, political and social citizenship. The book provides a clear account of the development of social rights within the European community in three key areas: social security and assistance; participation by workers in the undertakings in which they are employed; and the equal treatment of men and women. The author critically assesses the extent to which inequalities of class, gender and ethnicity are successfully addressed by community social policies.
The Supreme Court and Minorities in Contemporary America
The controversies surrounding the nominations, confirmations, and rejections of recent Supreme Court justices, and the increasingly conservative nature of the Court, have focused attention on the Supreme Court as never before. Although the Supreme Court is commonly understood to be the guardian of minority rights against the tyranny of the ......
