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Civil rights and the idea of freedom
The author attempts to delineate the important ideas that developed from the political experience of the US Civil Rights Movement. He argues that the Movement was not so much about ending segregation, as having blacks recognized as individuals whose sense of self-worth could be enhanced.
Race and region in US history: Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020. xxix+239pp. Illus. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-190-90090-8
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 54, Heft 5, S. 543-546
ISSN: 1461-7331
Is the past ever really past?: Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil. London: Allen Lane 2019, 2020 (pbk). 432pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £20, £9.99 pbk. ISBN 978-0-24126-286-3; 978-0-141983-424
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 437-441
ISSN: 1461-7331
Elegiac essays on the first black president: Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. New York: One World Publishing 2017. xvii+369pp. $28, $18 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-399-59056-6, 978-0-399-59057-3 pbk
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 421-425
ISSN: 1461-7331
Good fences make good neighbours
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 210-212
ISSN: 1461-7331
The law and the Holocaust
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 51, Heft 5, S. 439-452
ISSN: 1461-7331
Introduction: The Civil Rights Movement, a retrospective
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 435-439
ISSN: 1461-7331
'How long? Not long':Selma, Martin Luther King and civil rights narratives
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 466-485
ISSN: 1461-7331
Seventy years on
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 294-306
ISSN: 1461-7331
'How long? Not long': Selma, Martin Luther King and civil rights narratives
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 466
ISSN: 0031-322X
Seventy years on
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 294
ISSN: 0031-322X
Introduction: The Civil Rights Movement, a retrospective
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 435
ISSN: 0031-322X
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, POLITICS AND VIOLENCE
In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 511-521
ISSN: 1479-2451
The tradition of civil disobedience in America seems to be in pretty good health. Recent examples, including the Occupy movement, disruption of the functioning of abortion clinics, and even the release of classified government documents by Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, suggest that it is alive and kicking. Yet a consideration of these examples also re-enforces how fuzzy the edges and undefined the essential core of civil disobedience are. Indeed, a main achievement of Lewis Perry's book under review here is to emphasize that what we now consider the definitive traits of civil disobedience—respect for the law in principle, willingness to accept punishment for violating an unjust law, and a commitment to nonviolence—have rarely all been present when civil disobedience has been engaged in. Perhaps Perry's minimalist description of civil disobedience is the best we can do: "the national heritage of resistance to unjust laws."