Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America S Prison Nation

Contributor(s): Author: Beth E. RichieBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Treva B. LindseyNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 218 x 31Cover type:...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Elizabeth HintonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paper...

"Can Dundar is a very courageous journalist." --Orhan PamukIn November 2015, Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet,...

Demonstates how refuges and shelters stand at the core of the battered women's movement, and how the movement has challenged the police, courts and...

Dealing with the interface between the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) movement and the phenomenon of domestic violence against women, this bo...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that ar...

Reducere. In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzi...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

Beyond Anger and Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program spe...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jenny CarsonNumber of pages: 312Collection: Working Class in American HistoryPublication date: 20...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutalit...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In today's postmodern COVID world with Millennial needs clashing with traditional church ministry practices and paradigms, Maraschiello puts forth ...

In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been ...

Reducere. A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Elliott CurrieNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 205 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Reducere. Violence has been a central feature of America's history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of fo...

'Groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending' Peniel Joseph, New York Times A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of Am...

Reducere. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Patricia Hill CollinsNumber of pages: 344Collection: Contradictions of ModernityPublication date...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Aria S. HallidayIllustration(s): 34 color photographsNumber of pages: 208Collection: Feminist Med...

Prison Nation: Aperture 230, Paperback

Poetic Justice is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with the purpose of offering a positive, constructive form of self-expression to those affected ...

Reducere. Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Pos...

Will public policy address these issues - and how can feminism respond, especially radicals who see violence as an expression of male sexuality and...

Reducere. There are over 519 million Black Women on the planet Earth, give or take a dozen. There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack Women and Social Justice Education explores Black women's experiences and expertise in teaching and learning about justice in a ra...

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Jacqueline...

Reducere. Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participatio...

The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars-and shared be...

Reducere. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise t...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): Lecia MichelleNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 217 x 24Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Kabria BaumgartnerNumber of pages: 320Collection: Early American PlacesPublication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

This book analyzes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings deeming juvenile life without parole sentences to be cruel and unusual punishments....

Reducere. DescriptionLike most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thi...

Reducere. DescriptionHow Big Do You Want to Live?Channel your black girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you...

Reducere. She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed i...

Presents an introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system. This book examines the phenomeno...

Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and ...

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed AmericaIn the standard story, the suffrage crusad...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Ame...