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Terror and Truth

Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry

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Path to Grace

Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement

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Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy

The Politics of Implementation

University of Alabama Press

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

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No Small Thing

The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

University Press of Mississippi

A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage

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Emmett Till

The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

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The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights

Te Ika a Māori

HUIA, HUIA Publishers
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An American Phoenix

A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation 1865-1955, Commemorative Edition

West Virginia University Press, Storer College Books
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In the Name of Necessity

Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties

University of Alabama Press

Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus


 

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The Freedom of Security

Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism

UBC Press

A trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but reshaping the very nature of our political freedom.

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Property, Territory, Globalization

Struggles over Autonomy

UBC Press

Focusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization.

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Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States

UBC Press

While acknowledging differences between Canada and the United States in their political responses to religion and sexual diversity, this volume moves beyond stereotypes to pose larger questions and reveal surprising changes at the intersection of faith-based and LGBT rights claims.

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Panoptic Dreams

Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada

UBC Press

A definitive study of the implementation and implications of streetscape video surveillance systems in Canada.

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The Politics of Acknowledgement

Truth Commissions in Uganda and Haiti

UBC Press

This book examines the failure of truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti and develops a rigorous framework to evaluate truth commissions around the world.

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The Canadian War on Queers

National Security as Sexual Regulation

UBC Press

The Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.

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Romance and Rights

The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the tensions between the private and public realms of interracial relationships

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Surveillance

Power, Problems, and Politics

UBC Press

This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.

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Voices Raised in Protest

Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49

UBC Press
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Let Right Be Done

Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights

UBC Press
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Organizing the Transnational

Labour, Politics, and Social Change

UBC Press

This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.

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