Inhalt: "An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures -- such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods -- were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas -- from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils. "-- Systematik: 364.97 Umfang: 306 Seiten, Ill. Standort: 364.97 For ISBN: 978-0-374-18997-6
Inhalt: Native American contributions to egalitarianism -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- On cannibals, Michel de Montaigne -- Curious dialogues, Louis Armand de Lom D'Arce Lahontan -- Distresses of a frontier man, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- Agrarian justice, Thomas Paine -- The line between us, the Council of Indians at Miami Rapids -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The early republic and antebellum America: moral cures, poorhouses, and structural solutions -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Third annual report, Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor -- Report of the Committee on the Pauper Laws of this commonwealth, Quincy Committee address of the working people of New Castle County, Delaware, Wilson Pierson and George McFarlane -- Existing evils and their remedy, Frances Wright -- Rights of man to property, Thomas Skidmore -- "Sleep not longer, o Choctaws and Chickasaws," Tecumseh -- Epilogue: outcomes -- After the Civil War: the rise of labor and scientific charity -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- The Freedmen's Bureau, W.E.B. du Bois -- "It is not right for me to live in poverty," Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka) -- The army of the discontented, Terence Powderly -- Woman wants bread, not the ballot, Susan B. Anthony -- "We seek liberty for the slave," Albert R. Parsons -- Charity organization and the Buffalo plan, S. Humphrey Gurteen -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The (un)progressive era -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Public activities and investigations, Jane Addams -- Child welfare standards: a test of democracy, Julia Lathrop -- Industrial education for the negro, Booker T. Washington -- Coxey and his aims, Henry Vincent -- The social elements of the Indian problem, Arthur Parker (Gawaso Wanneh) -- The Socialist Party appeal, Eugene Debs -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The great depression and the new deal era -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- The importance of the preservation of self-help and of the responsibilities of individual -- Generosity as opposed to deteriorating effects of government appropriations, Herbert Hoover -- Houses of hospitality, Dorothy Day -- Works, Harry Hopkins -- Redistribution of wealth, Huey Long -- Immediate epic, Upton Sinclair -- Social security, Frances Perkins -- Workers' unemployment, old-age, and social insurance bill, Ernest Lundeen -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The war on poverty -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Where do we go from here? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr -- The ballot or the bullet, Malcolm X -- "We give you a hand up, not a handout," Sargent Shriver -- Welfare as a women's issue, Johnnie Tillman -- "The poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak," Cesar Chavez -- The Alcatraz proclamation to the great white father and his people, Indians of all nations -- Epilogue: outcomes -- Dismantling the new deal and war on poverty: contemporary solutions -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Eliminating hunger in America, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America -- Making homelessness go away: politics and policy, Doug Timmer, Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn Talley -- Living wage: live action, Robert Pollin -- Labor leaders and allies call for repeal of Taft Hartley Act, Tony Mazzocchi -- Bruce J. Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan -- "We demand fair trade, not free trade," Brian McWilliams -- The hidden agenda: from group-specific to universal programs of reform -- William Julius Wilson -- America's debt to blacks, Randall Robinson -- "Faith-based charities work daily miracles," George W. Bush -- Building assets to fight poverty, Michael Sherradan -- "We know the creation stories of our people," Mary Dann -- Epilogue: outcomes -- Index
Includes index Systematik: 362 Umfang: XIV, 345 S. : Ill. Standort: 362.5 Mye ISBN: 978-1-59451-210-0
We Were Feminists Once from Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl¯, the buying and selling of a political movement PublicAffairs, New York (2016)
Standort: 305.4 Zei
Inhalt: "A critical assessment of feminism today by the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine draws on the stories of institutions and everyday women to illuminate how feminism has been compromised by market forces, subversive politics and popular culture, sharing strategic recommendations for how to reverse marginalizing trends,"--NoveList
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Text in English Systematik: 305.4 Umfang: XVI, 285 Seiten Standort: 305.4 Zei ISBN: 978-1-61039-589-2
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