Our Rights
Title | Our Rights PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Bodenhamer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195325672 |
"This boxed set contains classroom resources to help America's educators teach about the most important documents in U.S. history"--Box
How Rights Went Wrong
Title | How Rights Went Wrong PDF eBook |
Author | Jamal Greene |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1328518116 |
An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.
The Rights of the People
Title | The Rights of the People PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Shipler |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1400079284 |
An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives. How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to these questions by traveling the midnight streets of dangerous neighborhoods with police, listening to traumatized victims of secret surveillance, and digging into dubious terrorism prosecutions. The law comes to life in these pages, where the compelling stories of individual men and women illuminate the broad array of government’s powers to intrude into personal lives. Examining the historical expansion and contraction of fundamental liberties in America, this is the account of what has been taken—and of how much we stand to regain by protesting the departures from the Bill of Rights. And, in Shipler’s hands, each person’s experience serves as a powerful incitement for a retrieval of these precious rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Title | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Civil rights |
ISBN |
Our Rights
Title | Our Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Wilson |
Publisher | Kids Making a Difference |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781926920955 |
Profiles ten children around the world, from the United States to Yemen, who have taken on the role of social activist.
Covering
Title | Covering PDF eBook |
Author | Kenji Yoshino |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2011-11-02 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1588361721 |
A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar. “[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel newly inspired.”—The New York Times Book Review Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Racial minorities are pressed to “act white” by changing their names, languages, or cultural practices. Women are told to “play like men” at work. Gays are asked not to engage in public displays of same-sex affection. The devout are instructed to minimize expressions of faith, and individuals with disabilities are urged to conceal the paraphernalia that permit them to function. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the work of American civil rights law will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity. Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely deny equal treatment to people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines. At the same time, Yoshino is responsive to the American exasperation with identity politics, which often seems like an endless parade of groups asking for state and social solicitude. He observes that the ubiquity of covering provides an opportunity to lift civil rights into a higher, more universal register. Since we all experience the covering demand, we can all make common cause around a new civil rights paradigm based on our desire for authenticity—a desire that brings us together rather than driving us apart. Praise for Covering “Yoshino argues convincingly in this book, part luminous, moving memoir, part cogent, level-headed treatise, that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation’s courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic America.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[A] remarkable debut . . . [Yoshino’s] sense of justice is pragmatic and infectious.”—Time Out New York
The Freedom to Read
Title | The Freedom to Read PDF eBook |
Author | American Library Association |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 16 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |