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.
Citizenship Beyond the State is a critical introduction to the concept of citizenship: it challenges the notion that citizenship has to be defined as membership of a state (a notion implicit in Derek Heater's book, and only touched on in Keith Faulks' earlier work). John Hoffman presents a realistic argument for a stateless model of citizenship. ......
Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement.
Examining the value and cost of free expression in America, this book demonstrates how an unregulated flow of information can be detrimental to youth. It asserts that freedom of expression can be very harmful to children, making it likely that they will be the perpetrators or victims of violence, will grow up as racists, or will use alcohol.
A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877
Jim Crow New York provides readers with both scholarly analysis and access to a series of extraordinary documents, including extensive excerpts from the resonant speeches made at New York's 1821 constitutional convention and additional documents which recover a diversity of voices.
A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877
In 1821, New York's political leaders met for over two months to rewrite the state's constitution. The fresh document secured the right to vote for the mass of white men while denying all but the wealthiest African-American men access to the polls. This title introduces students and scholars to this watershed event in American political life.
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis
How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? This title addresses these problems.
Through a detailed introductory discussion of the relation between the civil and the political, and between recognition and representation, this book provides a comprehensive vocabulary for understanding citizenship. It uses the work of T H Marshall to frame the critical interrogation of how ethnic, technological, ecological, cosmopolitan, sexual ......
The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
In this provocative book, Boyd suggests that hip hop culture has emerged as a social movement in its own right, replacing the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in influencing and defining today's generation.
