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Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674970500

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Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. “Provocative...[Shelby] doesn’t lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers ‘no new political strategies or policy proposals.’ What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are ‘problems’ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the ‘systemic injustice’ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the ‘fundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.’” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Author : Amy Simpson Simpson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1665555211

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My book Justice for Shelby, you see it's not just about me being homeless, it's about the courts and how they discriminated me, how the judge just let all happened like I wasn’t a person like what I said about how the Jones made me believe that I couldn’t care for my daughter how can they just say that to me and my own mother who suffers from bipolar and has a drinking problem lets her own mother beat me and my brother why must I we go through sooo much heartache and pain. Why does my own mother have to have hate in her heart why does my own daughter have to be in such pain and be away from me and suffer such abuse like me. I have been trying to break the chain for years. Why does my brother be so fragile, so bad, that he has a mind of a 4 year old. Why did he have to die from cancer why do I have a mother who has bipolar and schizophrenia and have a drinking problem and be with men who are abusive and have drinking problems.

Author : Dale Haynes
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-19
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ISBN : 9781480909793

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How far would a person go to seek justice? This is the question Susan must ask herself when, not only her good friend Shelby goes missing, but when her own life is at stake. While love and men seems abundant for Shelby, Susan has little experience with men. The last man Susan sees her friend Shelby with will have a lasting effect on Susan's life. When Shelby is murdered, a sick feeling comes over Susan as she suspects Shelby's last boyfriend. Past and present collide when the man who murdered her childhood friend comes after Susan's daughter. Through the support of her family and the power of prayer, Susan fights against fear and the feeling of hopelessness to risk her life and get back her daughter. A story of unimaginable suffering and remarkable triumph, Shelby's Justice proves trust in God and oneself is the only weapon needed in the fight for justice. About the Author Dale Haynes has been a vascular technologist for twenty-five years, as well as the president and CEO of an electrical engineering company for twenty years. She's married to a wonderful man, and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Personal experiences with abuse prompted her to write this story as a form of release. Now that her children are grown, she wishes to fulfill her dreams. Dale wants her readers to take away the concept of hope, the power of prayer, and to never give up.

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674043529

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We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Author : Kenneth B. Clark
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1989-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819562265

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Describes how the ghetto separates Blacks not only from white people, but also from opportunities and resources.

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674980751

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A cast of distinguished contributors engage critically with Martin Luther King's understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imperialism, nationalism, reparations, and social justice

Author : Shelby Steele
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465040551

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The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice -- remains unfulfilled. As Shelby Steele reveals in Shame, the roots of this impasse can be traced back to that decade of protest, when in the act of uncovering and dismantling our national hypocrisies -- racism, sexism, militarism -- liberals internalized the idea that there was something inauthentic, if not evil, in the America character. Since then, liberalism has been wholly concerned with redeeming modern American from the sins of the past, and has derived its political legitimacy from the premise of a morally bankrupt America. The result has been a half-century of well-intentioned but ineffective social programs, such as Affirmative Action. Steele reveals that not only have these programs failed, but they have in almost every case actively harmed America's minorities and poor. Ultimately, Steele argues, post-60s liberalism has utterly failed to achieve its stated aim: true equality. Liberals, intending to atone for our past sins, have ironically perpetuated the exploitation of this country's least fortunate citizens. It therefore falls to the Right to defend the American dream. Only by reviving our founding principles of individual freedom and merit-based competition can the fraught legacy of American history be redeemed, and only through freedom can we ever hope to reach equality. Approaching political polarization from a wholly new perspective, Steele offers a rigorous critique of the failures of liberalism and a cogent argument for the relevance and power of conservatism.

Author : Shelby Steele
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0061868469

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"Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans. Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.

Author : Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 166720114X

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A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women’s rights whose personal experiences helped shape her into a feminist icon who employed logical, well-presented arguments to show that gender discrimination was harmful to all members of society. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents features 15 legal opinions and briefs, including majority and dissenting opinions that Ginsburg drafted during her time on the U.S. Supreme Court and briefs from her career before she was appointed to the court in 1993.

Author : Gary May
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0465050735

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When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot. In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders -- as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional. A vivid, fast-paced history of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, Bending Toward Justice offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot -- although, as May shows, the fight for voting rights is by no means over.