The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law

The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law
Francis A. Boyle (Author)
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Sri Lanka’s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world’s most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country’s ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of captives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil civilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons. Human Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were committed during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance since, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers, including the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a “war without witnesses.” This book traces the ongoing engagement of international lawyer Francis A. Boyle during the last years of the conflict. Boyle was among the very few addressing the international legal implications of the Sri Lankan Government’s grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the conflict was taking place. This is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law.

• Rank: #367165 in Books
• Published on: 2009-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

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Categories: International Security * General. Contributors: Francis Boyle - Author. Format: NOOK Book

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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
Norman R. Yetman (Editor)
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More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.

• Rank: #4291 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.19" h x .51" w x 5.20" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 157 pages

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Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
John Burt (Author)
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In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable?

As they campaigned against each other, both Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict as profound as the one over slavery strained the commitment upon which democracy depends—namely, to rule by both consent and principle. This commitment is not easily met, because what conscience demands and what it is able to persuade others to consent to are not always the same. While Lincoln ultimately avoided a politics of morality detached from consent, and Douglas avoided a politics of expediency devoid of morality, neither found a way for liberalism to mediate the conflict of slavery.

That some disputes seemed to lie beyond the horizon of deal-making and persuasion and could be settled only by violence revealed democracy’s limitations. Burt argues that the unresolvable ironies at the center of liberal politics led Lincoln to discover liberalism’s tragic dimension—and ultimately led to war. Burt’s conclusions demand reevaluations of Lincoln and Douglas, the Civil War, and democracy itself.

• Rank: #3351 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-07
• Released on: 2012-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.73" w x 6.38" l, 2.68 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 832 pages

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Categories: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)->Political and social views, United States->History->Civil War, 1861-1865->Moral and ethical aspects, Democracy->Moral and ethical aspects. Contributors: John Burt - Author. Format: NOOK Book

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid (Author)
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Now a major motion picture
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times bestseller

“Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel.” —Washington Post

“One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader.” —Junot Diaz

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . .
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. 
But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

“Brief, charming, and quietly furious . . . a resounding success.” —Village Voice

A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book

• Rank: #7808 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x .55" w x 5.39" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 191 pages

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All the books we auction are unique, rare and scarce . Most are 1 st Editions or early copies. We deal with books, ideas and writers of substance. Why pay $30 for a new book with no real value intellectually, spiritually or financially when you can hold a true literary treasure. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 2007 ~ 1st Edition/1st Printing w/ complete letter line $22.00 intact on DJ The novel was shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize.It also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,t

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama (Author)
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Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.

Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.

Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.

A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.



Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

• Rank: #16574 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-09
• Released on: 2007-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.53" h x 1.50" w x 6.45" l, 1.63 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 464 pages

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Years before becoming the 44th President-elect of the United States Barack Obama published Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance a lyrical unsentimental and powerfully affecting memoir which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. It tells the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother -- a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Get the paperback Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama and get inspired.

Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
David Cunningham (Author)
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In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan membership-more than the rest of the South combined-was North Carolina, a supposed bastion of southern-style progressivism.

Klansville, U.S.A. is the first substantial history of the civil rights-era KKK's astounding rise and fall, focusing on the under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina. Why the UKA flourished in the Tar Heel state presents a fascinating puzzle and a window into the complex appeal of the Klan as a whole. Drawing on a range of new archival sources and interviews with Klan members, including state and national leaders, the book uncovers the complex logic of KKK activity. David Cunningham demonstrates that the Klan organized most successfully where whites perceived civil rights reforms to be a significant threat to their status, where mainstream outlets for segregationist resistance were lacking, and where the policing of the Klan's activities was lax. Moreover, by connecting the Klan to the more mainstream segregationist and anti-communist groups across the South, Cunningham provides valuable insight into southern conservatism, its resistance to civil rights, and the region's subsequent dramatic shift to the Republican Party.

Klansville, U.S.A. illuminates a period of Klan history that has been largely ignored, shedding new light on organized racism and on how political extremism can intersect with mainstream institutions and ideals.

• Rank: #17986 in Books
• Published on: 2012-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.17" h x 6.30" w x 1.18" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Klansville, USA: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with th

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KLANSVILLE, USA The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan By David Cunningham PUBLISHER'S PRICE $29.95 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING Dimensions: 6.5 by 9.5 inches, 337 pages Amidst the rising tide of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the prominence of the Ku Klux Klan boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Surprisingly, it was North Carolinaostensibly a bastion of Southern progressivismthat boasted the larges

Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
Jonathan Rieder (Author)

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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely."

King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares.

Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King's surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.

• Rank: #112246 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-09
• Released on: 2013-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely." King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King's surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander (Author)
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"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole."

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

• Rank: #13011 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.00" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 290 pages

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Categories: Hot Books: Bestselling and in the News, Social change->United States, United States->Race relations->Public opinion. Contributors: Michelle Alexander - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: January 2012, United States->Race relations->Public opinion. Contributors: Michelle Alexander - Author. Format: Hardcover

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, ISBN-13: 9781595586438, ISBN-10: 1595586431

Letters to Young Black Men: Advice and Encouragement for a Difficult Journey

Letters to Young Black Men: Advice and Encouragement for a Difficult Journey
Daniel Whyte III (Author)
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Actually written from numerous historically black colleges, such as Tuskegee, Morehouse and North Carolina A&T, from the very heart of a black Christian minister, who has himself faced all of the perils and problems young black men face today, comes forth this book, written just for the young black man in you life, whether you are a Mother, Father, grandmother or Sunday School teacher. Letters to Young Black Men is overflowing with "advice and encouragement for a difficult journey."

• Rank: #95940 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.35" h x 5.51" w x .35" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Mo' Letters to Young Black Men: More Advice and Encouragement for a Difficult Journey by Daniel III Whyte Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In this sequel to the bestselling book, Letters to Young Black Men: Advice amp; Encouragement for a Difficult Journey, Daniel Whyte III addresses more issues facing young black men in todays world. In Mo Letters to Young Black Men, he writes about such issues as: relationshi

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Torch Legacy Publications 2005-08-01. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 1st printing.Nice looking book has minor edge wear.

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Contributors: Daniel Whyte III - Author. Format: Paperback

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley (Author), Avery Brooks (Narrator)
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Categories: African American families, Haley family, 1750 to 1799. Contributors: Alex Haley - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: African American families, African Americans->Biography, The Twentieth Century (1900 - 1999). Contributors: Alex Haley - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (P.S.)

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (P.S.)
Gilbert King (Author)
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• Rank: #28919 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-19
• Released on: 2013-02-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 5.30" w x 7.80" l, .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter Johnson (Author)

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When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters’ pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton’s dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale.

But at the center of the story Johnson tells are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton—who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.

• Rank: #1265 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-26
• Released on: 2013-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.61" w x 6.10" l, 2.15 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 560 pages

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The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Mis-Education of the Negro
Carter Godwin Woodson (Author)
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This is a beautiful designed large format edition of the classic THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO by Carter G. Woodson. One of the most important books on education ever written.

• Rank: #3625 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.90" w x 8.90" l, .50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

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The MIS-Education of the Negro, ISBN-13: 9780486445588, ISBN-10: 0486445585

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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
David Nirenberg (Author)
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A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.

This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.

Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power—the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust—are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

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• Published on: 2013-02-04
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This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of powerthe Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaustare well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

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Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism

Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism
Ann Todd Jealous (Author), Caroline T. Haskell (Author), Julian Bond (Foreword), Pam Horowitz (Foreword)

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By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies invites its readers to look at how white Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both experienced psychotherapists skilled at facilitating dialogue about racial issues, are cognizant of the challenges that even the thought of such conversations often presents. Combined Destinies is based on the premise that for positive and lasting change to occur, it is necessary to open hearts as well as minds.

This courageous anthology posits that unearned privilege has damaged the psyche of white people as well as their capacity to understand racism. Using intimate stories, some from writers who have never before spoken of these highly charged issues, Jealous and Haskell offer readers a chance to explore their own experiences.

The book is organized thematically, with individual chapters that focus on, for example, guilt, shame, or silence. Anyone who is interested in mental health and spiritual healing would benefit from reading this book, but it’s especially suitable for teachers, professors, students, social activists, members of community groups, therapists, clergy, and other members of the counseling profession.

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• Published on: 2013-02
• Original language: English
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• 240 pages

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Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology: Implications for Politics and Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka

Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology: Implications for Politics and Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka
Neil DeVotta (Author)

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This study argues that political Buddhism and Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism have contributed to a nationalist ideology that has been used to expand and perpetuate Sinhalese Buddhist supremacy within a unitary Sri Lankan state; create laws, rules, and structures that institutionalize such supremacy; and attack those who disagree with this agenda as enemies of the state. The nationalist ideology is influenced by Sinhalese Buddhist mytho-history that was deployed by monks and politics in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to assert that Sri Lanka is the designated sanctuary for Theravada Buddhism, belongs to Sinhalese Buddhists, and Tamils and others live there only due to Sinhalese Buddhist sufferance. This ideology has enabled majority superordination, minority subordination, and a separatist war waged by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The study suggests both LTTE terrorism and the ethnocentric nature of the Sri Lankan state, which resorts to its own forms of terrorism when fighting the civil war, need to be overcome if the island is to become a liberal democracy. The present government of President Mahinda Rajapakse is the first to fully embrace the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology, suggesting that a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict is unlikely. Meaningful devolution of power, whereby Tamils could coalesce with their ethnic counterparts amidst equality and self-respect, is not in the offing. A solution along federal lines is especially unlikely. Instead, continued war and even attacks on Christians and Muslims seem to be in store for Sri Lanka as the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology is further consolidated. The study recommends that the international community adopt a more proactive stance in promoting a plural state and society in Sri Lanka. In addition to countering the terrorist methods employed by the LTTE, the international community should initiate and support measures to protect fundamental civil liberties and human rights of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minority communities. This is the fortieth publication in Policy Studies, a peer-reviewed East-West Center Washington series that presents scholarly analysis of key contemporary domestic and international political, economic, and strategic issues affecting Asia in a policy relevant manner.

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• Published on: 2007-10-19
• Original language: English
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• 87 pages

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River of Dark Dreams

River of Dark Dreams
Walter Johnson (Author)

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River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

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• Published on: 2013-02-26
• Released on: 2013-02-26
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Harvard Univ Pr 9780674045552 River of Dark Dreams By Johnson, Walter Description *Author: Johnson, Walter *Subtitle: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom *Publication Date: 2013/02/26 *Number of Pages: 526 *Binding Type: Hardcover *Language: English *Depth: 1.75 *Width: 6.50 *Height: 9.50 SKU: UBM9780674045552 Payment We accept payment via PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover and PayPal?s ?Bill Me Later?. Note: All purchases are processed via PayPal. If you have any questio

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author walter johnson format hardback language english publication year 15 02 2013 subject history military subject 2 regional history title river of dark dreams slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom author johnson walter publisher belknap pr publication date feb 26 2013 pages 524 binding hardcover dimensions 6 12 wx 9 25 h isbn 0674045556 subject history united states 19 th century description river of dark dreams places the cotton kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exp

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When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an empire for liberty populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in US expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters' pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton's dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale.But at the center of the story Johnson tells are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cottonwho labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander (Author), Cornel West (Introduction)
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Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action."

Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.

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• Published on: 2012-01-16
• Original language: English
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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals in"The New Jim Crow," today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you''re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination--employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service--are suddenly legal. Featured on"The Tavis Smiley Show, ""Bill Moyers Journal, ""Democracy Now, "and C-Span''s"Washington Journal, "the book has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era.

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, ISBN-13: 9781595581037, ISBN-10: 1595581030

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Categories: January 2012, United States->Race relations->Public opinion, African American prisoners->United States. Contributors: Michelle Alexander - Author. Format: Hardcover