wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother
ISBN: 9780140233605 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control.
"Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement that is gender-free."--The Washington Post Book World. A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric ...
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104,83 zł |
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780199978335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
Author Mary Frances Berry, a well-known expert in the field, focuses on the complexity and malleability of racial meanings within the US over generations. Colored Creoles, similar to other immigrants... This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and col...
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238,61 zł |
Why Era Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
ISBN: 9780253204592 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why ERA Failed looks at the systemic problems of politics and the amending process. The author, Mary Frances Berry, considers the behavior of the two sides from the perspective of a historian and lawyer. She describes the history of the amending process, from the Constitutional Convention to the present day, and its application to the struggles for amendments concerned with the status of blacks after the Civil War, income tax, prohibition, child labor, and woman suffrage. Berry concludes that ERA approval was problematic at best and defeat predictable. Supporters did too little of... Why ERA Failed looks at the systemic problems of politics and the amending process. The author, Mary Frances Berry, considers the behavior of the t... |
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83,42 zł |
Power in Words: The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
ISBN: 9780807001691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. President Obama's words are one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and administration. President Obama's words are one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and administration. |
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128,60 zł |
Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
ISBN: 9780140232981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while endorsing surveillance of black rebels and using "constitutional" military force against them. In this groundbreaking study, constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved enormously, both socially and... How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jame... |
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104,83 zł |
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
ISBN: 9780807007839 / Twarda / 21-01-2025 / 200 str. Książka dostępna od: 21-01-2025 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 21-01-2025
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127,50 zł |
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America
ISBN: 9780195029109 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.
This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, p...
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721,72 zł |
Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
ISBN: 9780465027538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, this anthology constitutes a unique chronicle of the nation's civil rights movements and the critical issues they've tackled, from slavery and suffrage to immigration and affirmative...
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influentia...
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113,53 zł |