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Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century (Hardcover): Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull
R5,948 Discovery Miles 59 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Poplulation migration is one of the demographic and social processes which have structured the British economy and society over the last 250 years. It affects individuals, families, communities, places, economic and social structures and governments. This book examines the pattern and process of migration in Britain over the last three centuries. Using late 1990s research and data, the authors have shed light on migrations patterns (including internal migration and movement overseas), its impact on social and economic change, and highlights differences by gender, age, family, position, socio-economic status and other variables.

Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century (Paperback): Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull
R2,595 Discovery Miles 25 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Poplulation migration is one of the demographic and social processes which have structured the British economy and society over the last 250 years. It affects individuals, families, communities, places, economic and social structures and governments. This book examines the pattern and process of migration in Britain over the last three centuries. Using late 1990s research and data, the authors have shed light on migrations patterns (including internal migration and movement overseas), its impact on social and economic change, and highlights differences by gender, age, family, position, socio-economic status and other variables.

Caribbean Migration - Globalized Identities (Hardcover): Mary Chamberlain Caribbean Migration - Globalized Identities (Hardcover)
Mary Chamberlain
R4,567 Discovery Miles 45 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America, Europe, and within the Caribbean. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the book discusses: the causes of migration; the experiences of migrants; the historical, cultural and political processes; issues of gender and imperialism; and the methodology of migration studies, including oral history.

Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover): Hilary Pilkington Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover)
Hilary Pilkington
R4,726 Discovery Miles 47 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, around 25 million ethnic Russians have found themselves constituting a politically and culturally - as well as physically - diplaced "Russian minority", scattered throughout the newly independent states.;This text, which provides empirical data drawn from interviews with almost 200 forces migrants, explores the impact that these displaced "Russian minorities" have had on post-Soviet Russia. The scale of reintegration has caused many problems both for those returning to their ethnic homeland and the "receiving " populations. This study unravels the situation, focusing on the relationship between displacement, migration and identity and developing a critical appraisal of current Russian migration policy and the peculiar politics of migration in post-Soviet space. The study aims to contribute to wider debates about migration, displacement and identity, and illuminate issues which are being increasingly faced by the global community.

Origins of the Kurdish Genocide - Nation Building and Genocide as a Civilizing and De-Civilizing Process (Paperback): Ibrahim... Origins of the Kurdish Genocide - Nation Building and Genocide as a Civilizing and De-Civilizing Process (Paperback)
Ibrahim Sadiq
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author argues that a part of the history of nation building in Iraq through addressing its political characters, different communities, agreements and pan Arab ideology, including the Baath ideology and its attempts to seize power through nondemocratic methods. It is an attempt to approach the essence of the exclusion mentality of the ruling elite in order to understand the process of genocide against the Kurdish people, including all existing religious minorities. This essence of the process has been approached in the framework of the civilizing and de-civilizing process as a main theory of the German sociologist, Norbert Elias. Thus, this book may be considered as one of the comprehensive books to present a study of state-building in Iraq, along with identifying some of the political figures that had an essential impact on the construction. On the other hand, it is a comprehensive study of the genocide, in the sense of searching for the causes and roots of the genocide. The Anfal campaigns took place in 1988, but the process started as far back as the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies of the last century.

The Politics of Alterity - France and her Others (Paperback): Sarah Mazouz The Politics of Alterity - France and her Others (Paperback)
Sarah Mazouz; Translated by Rachel Gomme
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Is France afraid of her others? By looking back at the discourses and practices that have been formed over the last fifteen years, Sarah Mazouz addresses French politics of alterity. Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in both public administrations in charge of combating racial discrimination and in naturalisation offices in a large city in the Paris region, she shows how immigration, nation, and racialisation are articulated in the social space. Through the analysis of these two public offices, Mazouz questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner. In so doing, she seeks to grasp the paradoxical relationship between the French Republic and her others and the plural logics producing national order.

Race and Restoration - Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle (Hardcover): Barclay Key Race and Restoration - Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle (Hardcover)
Barclay Key
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs. Many of their congregations, even deep in the South, counted whites and blacks among their numbers. As the civil rights movement began to challenge pervasive social views about race, Church of Christ leaders and congregants found themselves in the midst of turmoil. In Race and Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle, Barclay Key focuses on how these churches managed race relations during the Jim Crow era and how they adapted to the dramatic changes of the 1960s. Although most religious organisations grappled with changing attitudes toward race, the Churches of Christ had singular struggles. Fundamentally ""restorationist,"" these exclusionary churches perceived themselves as the only authentic expression of Christianity, compelling them to embrace peoples of different races, even as they succumbed to prevailing racial attitudes. The Churches of Christ thus offer a unique perspective for observing how Christian fellowship and human equality intersected during the civil rights era. Key reveals how racial attitudes and practices within individual congregations elude the simple categorizations often employed by historians. Public forums, designed by churches to bridge racial divides, offered insight into the minds of members while revealing the limited progress made by individual churches. Although the Churches of Christ did have a more racially diverse composition than many other denominations in the Jim Crow era, Key shows that their members were subject to many of the same aversions, prejudices, and fears of other churches of the time. Ironically, the tentative biracial relationships that had formed within and between congregations prior to World War II began to dissolve as leading voices of the civil rights movement prioritised desegregation.

The Rights Track - Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery (Hardcover): Todd Landman, Christine Garrington The Rights Track - Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery (Hardcover)
Todd Landman, Christine Garrington
R2,391 Discovery Miles 23 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Affirmative Action (Hardcover): John W Johnson, Robert P. Green Affirmative Action (Hardcover)
John W Johnson, Robert P. Green
R1,928 Discovery Miles 19 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Affirmative Action recounts the fascinating history of a civil rights provision considered vital to protecting and promoting equality, but still bitterly contested in the courts-and in the court of public opinion. "Special consideration" or "reverse discrimination"? This examination traces the genesis and development of affirmative action and the continuing controversy that constitutes the story of racial and gender preferences. It pays attention to the individuals, the events, and the ideas that spawned federal and selected state affirmative action policies-and the resistance to those policies. Perhaps most important, it probes the key legal challenges to affirmative action in the nation's courts. The controversy over affirmative action in America has been marked by a persistent tension between its advocates, who emphasize the necessity of overcoming historical patterns of racial and gender injustice, and its critics, who insist on the integrity of color and gender blindness. In the wake of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2007, Affirmative Action brings the story of one of the most embattled public policy issues of the last half century up to date, demonstrating that social justice cannot simply be legislated into existence, nor can voices on either side of the debate be ignored.

Frontiers of Gender Equality - Transnational Legal Perspectives (Hardcover): Rebecca J. Cook Frontiers of Gender Equality - Transnational Legal Perspectives (Hardcover)
Rebecca J. Cook
R2,380 Discovery Miles 23 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples. Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination. With the benefit of hindsight, the book's contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.

Korean Immigrants and the Challenge of Adjustment (Hardcover, New): Moon H. Jo Korean Immigrants and the Challenge of Adjustment (Hardcover, New)
Moon H. Jo
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the steady increase in the number of Asian immigrants, our interest in Asian-American communities has intensified in recent years. While much has been written on the experiences of established immigrant communities such as the Chinese and the Japanese, little is yet known about the Korean Americans, one of today's fastest growing Asian-American minorities. This volume provides an overview of the history of Korean immigration to this country--from the first immigrants who arrived in Hawaii at the beginning of the century to the most recent waves of the 1980s and 1990s--and a detailed analysis of the main problems Korean Americans face in adjusting to life in their adopted country. The author collected most of his data through a questionnaire survey and case-study interviews, which provide lively, first-person accounts of the immigrant experience, focusing in particular on problems such as the language barrier, social isolation, family tension, and the challenge of earning a livelihood.

Cultural Conflict and the Swedish Sexual Myth - The Male Immigrant's Encounter with Swedish Sexual and Cohabitation... Cultural Conflict and the Swedish Sexual Myth - The Male Immigrant's Encounter with Swedish Sexual and Cohabitation Culture (Hardcover, New)
Sven-Axel Mansson
R2,921 Discovery Miles 29 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the past fifty years immigrants from 160 nations have transformed Sweden from an ethnically relatively homogeneous society into an intensely multi-ethnic one. By the beginning of the 1990s, more than one million out of a population of eight and a half million were immigrants or children of immigrants. By the early 1990s some ten percent of the Swedish population are foreign born. This change in Swedish life and culture results in considerable tension and misunderstandings. Perhaps, Mansson would contend, in no area is this more evident than in love relationships. In this book he sets out to explore different aspects of the encounter between immigrant males and Swedish sexual and cohabitation culture, and to analyze this encounter in relationship to the important elements in the cultural patterns and processes that have shaped and still shape immigrant male's gender-role specific socialization. In a world increasingly confronted with similar tensions and adaptations, this study is of considerable interests to sociologists and others concerned with contemporary multicultural society.

Citizenship East & West (Hardcover): Liebich Citizenship East & West (Hardcover)
Liebich
R6,851 Discovery Miles 68 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examines the dynamics of citizenship in Europe's new democracies, and the concerns that citizenship has raised. The concept of citizenship is analyzed and detailed studies of citizenship in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are presented.

Women of Exile - German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 (Hardcover): Andreas Lixl-Purcell Women of Exile - German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 (Hardcover)
Andreas Lixl-Purcell
R2,926 Discovery Miles 29 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lixl-Purcell . . . has chosen twenty-six from the hundreds of unpublished memoirs he researched. They are arranged in three sections--Persecution and Displacement, Exile and War, and Exile in Hindsight. Much of the power of their stories lies in their matter-of-fact and straightforward telling of their fears, narrow escapes, sorrows, and triumphs. There are narratives describing women's social, cultural and political networks before and after immigration, the isoilated struggles of individuals, their work as legal or illegal aliens abroad, and their involvement with underground resistance movements. American Library Book RevieW Women's exile autobiographies, written usually for an audience of relatives and fellow travellers, are rarely made available to the public. This is particularly true for Jewish women who fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In this unusual volume, the memoirs, diaries, and letters of twenty-six of these extraordinary women are published together for the first time. Their recollections paint a provocative profile of exile life and cover a broad spectrum of emigre history on every continent. While each memoir voices an intensely personal explanation, their combined effect is to launch a radical reinterpretation of women's roles, fates, and destinies.

The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education - Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy (Paperback): Gloria T.... The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education - Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy (Paperback)
Gloria T. Alter, William R. Fernekes
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Human rights education (HRE) is a worldwide movement designed to place human rights at the center of K-university educational theory and practice, providing a critical foundation for global citizenship education, social justice and diversity educationand equity-based schooling reforms. Readers will learn how: (1) HRE content supports core values of U. S. education, including those focused on liberty, justice, and social equality for all educators and students, (2) HRE concepts and illustrative learning strategies support inclusive education and promote peace, tolerance, and cross-cultural understanding, and (3) the theoretical foundations of HRE are compatible with recognized teacher preparation standards and program goals. Pre-service educators seeking teaching licenses and practicing classroom educators desiring to expand their focus into human rights education will find this book very helpful, as will professors teaching methods courses, courses dealing with social justice, multicultural education and diversity in education. The book blends theory and practice to help educators make human rights education a central focus of their daily practice, providing sample HRE units concerning the rights of global migrants, indigenous peoples and LGBT+ communities. Readers can not only apply what they learn, but also become part of a non-partisan movement supporting human rights across the globe.

Citizenship - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover): Professor Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner Citizenship - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover)
Professor Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner
R25,492 Discovery Miles 254 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of citizenship is central to a wide number of debates in the social sciences: juridicial (the rights and obligations of the state), political philosophy and the law (because it defines the nature of expectations relating to social contract) and questions relating to freedom, equality and rights.
These two volumes provide scholars with a comprehensive guide to the concept. It outlines the history of citizenship and traces its application in various debates within the social sciences.
Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading sociologists in the English-speaking world. He is the author or co-author of no less than 30 books, the most recent of which have been Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity (Sage 1992) and Regulating Bodies (Routledge 1992).

The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education - Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy (Hardcover): Gloria T.... The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education - Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy (Hardcover)
Gloria T. Alter, William R. Fernekes
R2,249 Discovery Miles 22 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Human rights education (HRE) is a worldwide movement designed to place human rights at the center of K-university educational theory and practice, providing a critical foundation for global citizenship education, social justice and diversity educationand equity-based schooling reforms. Readers will learn how: (1) HRE content supports core values of U. S. education, including those focused on liberty, justice, and social equality for all educators and students, (2) HRE concepts and illustrative learning strategies support inclusive education and promote peace, tolerance, and cross-cultural understanding, and (3) the theoretical foundations of HRE are compatible with recognized teacher preparation standards and program goals. Pre-service educators seeking teaching licenses and practicing classroom educators desiring to expand their focus into human rights education will find this book very helpful, as will professors teaching methods courses, courses dealing with social justice, multicultural education and diversity in education. The book blends theory and practice to help educators make human rights education a central focus of their daily practice, providing sample HRE units concerning the rights of global migrants, indigenous peoples and LGBT+ communities. Readers can not only apply what they learn, but also become part of a non-partisan movement supporting human rights across the globe.

How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights - A Religious Freedom Mystery (Paperback): Cynthia Burack How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights - A Religious Freedom Mystery (Paperback)
Cynthia Burack
R805 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R71 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice - Rethinking Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Anna Malavisi Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice - Rethinking Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Anna Malavisi
R2,331 Discovery Miles 23 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking Theory and Practice presents a critical analysis of global development from a perspective that is both theoretical and practical, addressing both ethical and epistemic issues. Offering a unique perspective from having worked as a practitioner in global development for several years, then left the practice to ponder the deep ethical issues that shadow global development, Anna Malavisi argues that one of the problems in global development today is the absence of an ethical analysis; ethics in development today is overshadowed by economic and political interests, as well as national self-interest. The book describes how Chagas diseases, as a Neglected Tropical Disease, continues to plague vulnerable populations in poorer countries such as Bolivia due to a very limited way in how it has been conceived, understood, and addressed. Malavisi offers a strong ethical approach, comprising a feminist methodology, a social ethical praxis, political responsibility, epistemic justice, and deep-green theory. A strong ethical approach is necessary to address Chagas Disease as well as other development problems in a more effective way.

U.S. Immigration Policy Reform in the 1980s - A Preliminary Assessment (Hardcover, New): Francsco Rivera Batiz, IRA Gang, Selig... U.S. Immigration Policy Reform in the 1980s - A Preliminary Assessment (Hardcover, New)
Francsco Rivera Batiz, IRA Gang, Selig Sechzer
R2,319 Discovery Miles 23 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using the most current data available, the essays collected here offer a timely assessment of the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which constitutes the most significant U.S. immigration policy initiative of recent years. The contributors--all well-known researchers active in analyzing immigration issues--examine such key questions as: How has the implementation of IRCA proceeded? What have been its effects so far? Have the goals of the immigration policy reform been fulfilled? What potential impact on the U.S. economy can the policy reforms be expected to have over the next few years? Taken together, their essays provide a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in the area of immigration policy research and a first look at the actual effects of IRCA on undocumented immigration to America.

Each chapter analyzes a particular aspect or aspects of IRCA. Francisco Rivera-Batiz begins with an introduction and overview of U.S. immigration policy reform in the 1980s. Michael Hoefer then describes in detail the provisions of IRCA and shows how the law has been implemented to date. In the next essay, Barry Chiswick analyzes the effectiveness of the employer sanctions mandated by the bill. Subsequent chapters examine such issues as the critical role played by undocumented workers in the agricultural sector of the U.S. southwest, substitution and complementarity between immigrant and native labor, and the economic implications of immigration law reform. The contributors are united in the view that IRCA has worked well in its legalization aspects, reaching a large portion of the undocumented population. They raise questions about the employer sanctions provisions, however, and express doubts as to whether IRCA can be expected to have any major constraining effect on illegal immigration over the next few years.

Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen
R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and practically experienced in daily lives. The monograph combines, in an unconventional way, selected philosophical accounts and everyday experiences from certain locations in Tanzania and Uganda. It provides contributions from philosophical ideas drawing on scholars such as Chantal Mouffe, Rosi Braidotti, Theodor Adorno and Etienne Balibar on one hand, and the conceptions articulated by groups of inhabitants of rural and urban settings in Africa, on the other hand. Therefore, the book offers fresh readings under the lenses of citizenship and learning.This is an open access book.

Transformative Citizenship in South Korea - Politics of Transformative Contributory Rights (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Chang... Transformative Citizenship in South Korea - Politics of Transformative Contributory Rights (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Chang Kyung-Sup
R1,928 R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Save R930 (48%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South Korea's postcolonial history has been replete with dramatic societal transformations through which it has emerged with a fully blown modernity, or compressed modernity. There have arisen the transformation-oriented state, society, and citizenry for which each transformation becomes an ultimate purpose in itself, its processes and means constitute the main sociopolitical order, and the transformation-embedded interests form the core social identity. A distinct mode of citizenship has thereby arisen as transformative contributory rights, namely, effective or legitimate claims to national and social resources, opportunities, and respects that accrue to each citizen's contributions to the nation's or society's collective transformative goals. South Koreans have been exhorted or have exhorted themselves to intensely engage in such collective transformations, so that their citizenship is framed and substantiated by the conditions, processes, and outcomes of such transformative engagements. This book concretely and systematically analyzes how this transformative dynamic has shaped South Koreans' developmental, social, educational, reproductive, and cultural citizenship.

The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa (Hardcover): M. Muiu The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa (Hardcover)
M. Muiu
R1,610 Discovery Miles 16 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book compares African and Afrikaner nationalisms to demonstrate that the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in South Africa was a neo-colonial settlement that left the economy and the military/security sector under the control of the white minority, while increasing wide socioeconomic disparities between rich and poor.

CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE (Hardcover): Barbara Einhorn, Mary Kaldor, Zdenek Kavan CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE (Hardcover)
Barbara Einhorn, Mary Kaldor, Zdenek Kavan
R3,463 Discovery Miles 34 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

European integration, the collapse of state socialism and the relative decline of social democracy have left only two dominant European ideologies: nationalism and the free market. In Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe a distinguished group of scholars argues that a democratically reconstructed Europe requires a new approach centred around a concept of citizenship which is neither individualistic nor ethnically based but is concerned with the empowerment of individuals. The authors propose the development of a well-structured and pluralistic civic society which encourages active citizenship and a definition of democratic citizenship which can be expressed through self-organized social activity. Addressing issues central to the future of European democracy - including politics and political processes, economic and social policy, and ideology, language and communication - this important book challenges many of the existing assumptions about the revolutions of 1989, their aftermath and the future of post-Cold War Europe. Insightful and policy relevant, this book will be welcomed by sociologists, political scientists and economists interested in the ideologies underpinning European society.

In Sullivan's Shadow - The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle (Paperback): Aimee Edmondson In Sullivan's Shadow - The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle (Paperback)
Aimee Edmondson
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free speech and silence African American dissent. In Sullivan's Shadow demonstrates that this strategy was pursued throughout the civil rights era and beyond, as southern officials continued to bring lawsuits in their attempts to intimidate journalists who published accounts of police brutality against protestors. Taking the Supreme Court's famous 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan as her starting point, Aimee Edmondson illuminates a series of fascinating and often astounding cases that preceded and followed this historic ruling. Drawing on archival research and scholarship in journalism, legal history, and African American studies, Edmondson offers a new narrative of brave activists, bold journalists and publishers, and hard headed southern officials. These little-known courtroom dramas at the intersection of race, libel, and journalism go beyond the activism of the 1960s and span much of the country's history, beginning with lawsuits filed against abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and concluding with a suit spawned by the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.

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