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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy on Trial: The Persistence of Race-Based Vote Denial in American History -- 2. To Exclude and Oppress: The Evolution of the Texas All-White Primary -- 3. A Rising Tide of Protest: Early Efforts to Combat the Texas All-White Primary -- 4. Last Chance for Victory: Smith v. Allwright in the Lower Federal Courts -- 5. May It Please the Court: Smith v. Allwright in the Supreme Court -- 6. Death Knell: The All-White Primary after Smith -- Chronology -- Relevant Cases -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of--and responses to--Palestine's climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers' Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists' claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine's climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism's spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.

Humanizing Businesses for a Better World of Workprovides a strategic perspective on how organizations can transform their structures and practices to accommodate a more humanized, people-first workplace in the face of the fundamental transitions happening in the post-pandemic world.

Other books remind us of what we already know--that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. What a privacy-deprived America needs most is not less technology, Rule argues, but profound political realignment. His eleven proposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal data system not required by law; to creating a universal property right over commercial exploitation of data on oneself--so that no company or other organization could profit from use or sale of such data without permission. Succinct and compelling, Taking Privacy Seriously explains how we can refashion information technologies so that they serve human needs, not the other way around.

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundits argue either that police violence against African Americans has remained unchanged since the era of slavery or that it is a recent phenomenon and disconnected from the past. Neither view is accurate. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show, in narrative detail, how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans. Wide racial differentials in the use of lethal force and beatings during arrest and interrogation emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. Adler explains how race control and crime control blended and blurred during this era, when police officers and criminal justice officials began to justify systemic violence against Black people as a crucial--and legal--tool for maintaining law and order. Bluecoated Terror explores both the rise of these law-enforcement trends and their chilling resilience, providing critical context for recent horrific police abuses as the ghost of Jim Crow law enforcement continues to haunt the nation.

To understand the Labour Party today one needs to appreciate how people in the party have reacted to the New Labour legacy. Karl Pike examines the efforts each of the three leaders have made in reforming the party's ideology, its democracy and organization and their political style and approach to the leadership.

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Framework -- 2 Culture, Power and Individual Agency -- 2.1 Power and Individual Agency -- 2.1.1 The Reproduction of Power Structures -- 2.1.2 Questions of Power between Agency and Limitations -- 2.2 Culture, Identity and Representation -- 2.3 Stereotypes and the 'Underclass' Discourse -- 2.3.1 Stereotyping as a Limiting and Exclusionary Signifying Practice -- 2.3.2 'Underclass' as a Racialised Discourse -- Part II: Pervasive Stereotypes and their Limiting Effects on Identity Constructions -- Interconnections: Intersecting Factors of Identity Construction -- 3 Grappling with Stereotypical Constructions of Black Men as Violent and Criminal -- 3.1 Black Men as 'Violent Avengers' -- 3.1.1 Struggling to Escape from the Stereotype in The Scholar and East of Acre Lane -- 3.1.2 Challenging Dominant Discourses on the 1981 Brixton Riots in East of Acre Lane -- 3.1.3 Longing to Become a 'Badman' and the Normalisation of Violence in The Dirty South -- 3.2 Hypersexual Black Masculinities -- 3.3 'Black Youths' Pitted against a 'Noble Tom' in Pigeon English -- 3.4 Alternative Identity Constructions -- 4 The Splitting of the Black Female Subject into 'Irresponsible Single Mother' and 'Superwoman' -- 4.1 The Treatment of the 'Irresponsible Single Mother' -- 4.2 The Challenges of Escaping from the 'Irresponsible Single Mother' -- 4.3 Questioning the Celebration of the Black 'Superwoman' -- Part III: Spatial and Narrative Strategies of Representing Limitations -- Groundwork and Contexts: The Bildungsroman Varieties -- 5 Marginalising Spaces and the Limits of Spatial Development -- 5.1 The Representation of Neighbourhoods and Council Estates -- 5.2 The Journey Motif in the Female Black British Bildungsroman.

Using a unique application of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), this book provides a critical, interdisciplinary, examination of the contemporary practice of UN peacekeeping. Is peacekeeping intervention? Since its conception in the mid-1950s, peacekeeping has significantly evolved from traditional, lightly armed, passive operations to robust, multi-dimensional stabilisation peacekeeping operations. This raises questions as to whether this is simply a natural evolution of peacekeeping or whether it marks an expansion of the concept beyond its boundaries, pushing it into the realm of peace enforcement or intervention. In response, this book examines the frameworks which govern UN peacekeeping and seeks to understand the relationship between peacekeeping and the principle of non-intervention. Providing practical examples from the United Nations' operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and drawing upon interviews with key international actors including UN personnel, the book explores the boundaries of peacekeeping, contending that peacekeeping, at times, becomes a form of intervention. This, the book argues, is detrimental both to the concept of peacekeeping and to the host state, and it concludes by offering a series of recommendations to re-affirm peacekeeping's boundaries and amplify the effectiveness of contemporary peacekeeping.

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners. The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis