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  • Property Rites

    The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness

    by Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor ...
    In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a “colored” cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife had lied to him about her racial background. The subsequent marital annulment trial ... Read more

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  • Policing Hatred

    Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime

    by Jeannine Bell ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical America
    Explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crimeHigh-profile hate crimes like the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard and the dragging death of James Byrd have drawn the nation’s attention, but there are thousands of other individuals who are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation each year. This study of hate crimes challenges ... Read more

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  • Inmates Vs Guards: Miami-Dade County Jail

    Inmates Vs Gaurds:

    by Hakeem Ali ...
    Series series Inmates Vs Gaurds
    According to NBC Miami news channel, there have been several reports of abuse within the Miami Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. In 2022 alone, over 398 reports of abuse by inmates were filed, yet none of the staff were terminated in the last three years. This lack of accountability for staff members has allowed the problem to persist, with only 33 officers being disciplined ... Read more

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  • The Power of Human Rights: A Comprehensive Guide to Effectively Advocating for Social Change

    by Tiffani Hume ...
    The power of human rights is a remarkable force-- one that can transform lives, shape entire societies, and bring about positive and lasting change. This book introduces you to the concept of human rights and explores how they can be used as a means of social and political empowerment. You will also learn the pitfalls of political agenda for politicians and how that can destroy the mission of ... Read more

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  • Safe High Reliability Systems

    by Patrick Maher ...
    High-reliability management is a set of practices and competencies that help Organisations operating in high-hazard environments maintain a low risk of accidents. These Organisations recognise the inherent risks associated with their operations and actively work to minimise them, even in complex and challenging circumstances.Clear and understandable core management competencies are needed to ... Read more

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  • Coercive Care

    Rights, Law and Policy

    Edited by Bernadette Mcsherry, Ian Freckelton ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation to individuals such as those with severe mental illnesses, those with intellectual and cognitive ... Read more

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  • Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe

    Legislating for Divergent Values

    by Viera Pejchal ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    Hate Speech and Human Rights. Democracies need to understand these terms to properly adapt their legal frameworks. Regulation of hate speech exposes underlining and sometimes invisible societal values such as security and public order, equality and non-discrimination, human dignity, and other democratic vital interests.The spread of hatred and hate speech has intensified in many corners of the ... Read more

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  • Code noir

    by J.B.Colbert ...
    Qu'est-ce que le code noir ? Ce sont les règles établies par Colbert au XVIIème siècle pour clarifier la situation des esclaves vis à vis de leurs maîtres aux Antilles françaises. C'est à dire : le texte qui régit la vie des esclaves dans toutes les fonctions de leurs vies. ... Read more

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  • Autoafirmação das mulheres

    Perspectivas para transposição das invisibilidades organizacionais por meio de uma teoria política de justiça substancialmente igualitária

    by Paula Camila Veiga Ferreira ...
    A obra detalha e averigua a sub-representação feminina no ambiente empresarial, notadamente nos cargos diretivos empresariais; conceitua a vulnerabilidade de posições jurídicas empresariais e propõem os critérios basilares de sua existência em razão do gênero; cerifica a suficiência das regras de compliance, quando incidentes, na autoafirmação das mulheres; qualifica a real incidência dos deveres ... Read more

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  • Obama's Legacy - Yes We Can, Yes We Did

    Main Accomplishments & Projects, All Executive Orders, International Treaties, Inaugural Speeches and Farwell Address of the 44th President of the United States

    by Barack Obama, U.S. Government, White House ...
    During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. This collection presents the legacy of Barack Obama through his presidential work and the legislation of his administration. The edition honors his achievements, the determined efforts despite the resistance and his long lasting influence: Table of ... Read more

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  • When Law Fails

    Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

    Edited by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat ...
    Series Book 3 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply ... Read more

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  • A Degraded Caste of Society

    Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery

    by Andrew T. Fede ...
    Series Book 7 - Southern Legal Studies
    A Degraded Caste of Society traces the origins of twenty-first-century cases of interracial violence to the separate and unequal protection principles of the criminal law of enslavement in the southern United States. Andrew T. Fede explains how antebellum appellate court opinions and statutes, when read in a context that includes newspaper articles and trial court and census records, extended this ... Read more

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  • White Rage

    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    by Carol Anderson ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York TimesBestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA New York TimesNotable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil W... ... Read more

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  • A Bíblia E Os Direitos Lgbtq - Um Debate Atual

    by Marcelo De Oliveira Batista ...
    O livro A Bíblia e os Direitos LGBTQ+ - Um Debate Atual no Contexto Tradicional explora a complexa interseção entre a fé cristã tradicional e as questões contemporâneas relacionadas aos direitos LGBTQ+. Com uma abordagem equilibrada e reflexiva, o autor examina as interpretações bíblicas tradicionais que têm sido usadas para discutir ou contestar os direitos LGBTQ+, enquanto também oferece uma ... Read more

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  • Ferguson's Fault Lines

    by Kimberly Jade Norwood ...
    In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force and killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male. These incidents have caused dramatic erosion in public confidence in the justice system and America’s promise of equal treatment under the law. Minority communities need assurance that our justice system is fair and balanced and is for the protection ... Read more

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  • Driving While Brown

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance

    by Terry Greene Sterling, Jude Joffe-Block ...
    "A smart, well-documented book about a group of people determined to hold the powerful to account."—2021 **NPR "Books We Love""Journalism at its best."****—2022 Southwest Books of the Year: Top PickA 2021 Immigration Book of the Year, Immigration Prof BlogInvestigative Reporters & Editors Book Award Finalist 2021How Latino activists brought down powerful Arizo... ... Read more

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  • American Islamophobia

    Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear

    by Khaled A. Beydoun ...
    On Forbes list of "10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive Workplace"How law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobia—with a call to action on how to combat it.“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be ... Read more

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  • The Deaf Legal Dilemma

    Challenging Equality Law

    by Rob Wilks ...
    Equality law is audist. Deaf communities around the world continue to encounter Deaf Legal Exclusion through legal frameworks that define them narrowly and restrict their rights.The Deaf Legal Dilemma: Challenging Equality Law examines why these frameworks have not delivered equality in practice. It argues that the core issue is structural misrecognition: law protects deaf people only when they ... Read more

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  • Trapped in a Maze

    How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

    by Leslie Paik ...
    Trapped in a Maze provides a window into families' lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other ... Read more

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  • Direito ao aborto

    Reflexões disruptivas em busca do protagonismo feminino sobre o direito ao próprio corpo

    by Josiene Souza ...
    A obra parte da indagação de como auferir a autodeterminação das mulheres e pensar no direito ao aborto como corolário do direito de decidir a partir de uma perspectiva feminista que visa ressignificar os conceitos de autodeterminação, liberdade e dignidade da pessoa humana. Analisa-se as repercussões sócio-jurídicas do aborto no Brasil, partindo da compreensão de que o sistema penal em face de ... Read more

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  • Race, Racism, and International Law

    Edited by Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Justin Desautels-Stein, Chantal Thomas ...
    What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship?From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the ... Read more

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  • Violencia y derechos vulnerados

    El discurso en acción

    by María Laura Pardo, Mariana Marchese, Dora Barrancos ...
    Este libro ofrece análisis de subrayada pericia a un conjunto de corpus discursivos para dar cuenta del fenómeno de la violencia generizada, con incontestable alcance "aplicado", si con este término aludimos a las consecuencias sobre la formulación de políticas de acción de los colectivos de la sociedad civil, y también de políticas públicas, si se desea revertir los dominantes órdenes ... Read more

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  • We Are Not the Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore

    by Cherian George, Kok Hoe Ng, Thirunalan Sasitharan, Carol Yuen, Daryl Yang, Haolie Jiang, Joel Yew, Remy Choo, Kirsten Han, Isaac Neo, Kristian-Marc James Paul, Alfian Sa'at, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Irie Aman, Reetaza Chatterjee, Kenneth Paul Tan, Corinna Lim, Alex Au, Suraendher Kumarr ...
    Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combination of deft manoeuvres and patient politics. Yet civil society is often unacknowledged, their skill and labour instead frequently misunderstood, even earning them the label of “troublemakers” or “enemies of the state”.This collection of essays and interviews is a candid reflection on the ... Read more

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  • Because of Sex

    One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

    by Gillian Thomas ...
    "Thomas writes with precision and grace (and a lovely lack of jargon) about ten cases that established the full reach and scope of Title VII." ― The Boston GlobeBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple ... Read more

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