The Two Faces Of America
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The Two Faces Of American Freedom
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Author : Aziz Rana
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-07
The Two Faces Of American Freedom written by Aziz Rana and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-07 with History categories.
The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America’s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.
America Amerikkka
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Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
America Amerikkka written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Religion categories.
America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America’s sense of itself. In its examination of America’s "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.
The Two Faces Of Justice
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Author : Jiwei Ci
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-15
The Two Faces Of Justice written by Jiwei Ci and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-15 with Law categories.
Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly fail to. Even if we appear to have overcome the difficulty, our reluctance often betrays itself in certain moral emotions. In this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. Rather than pursue a search for normative principles, he probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. A wide-ranging treatment of enduring questions, The Two Faces of Justice can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice re-launched in our time by John Rawls.
The Two Faces Of America
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Author : Leonard C. Garrett Sr.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-03-28
The Two Faces Of America written by Leonard C. Garrett Sr. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Leonard C. Garrett Sr. was born May 17, 1930 to parents sharecropping a 40 acres slave plot given his mothers parents when they were freed from slavery. Forced from the farm by the Ku Klux Klan, his parents fled to Tampa, Florida. An avid reader, He learned that outside the southern states, for those with Hope, America offered Opportunity, and through Shared Sacrifice, a better America for the Generation that follows. He quit high school and joined the air force, moved his parents out of the projects, and set out to achieve his American dream. Retiring from the air force he joined a major bank as a junior executive and at age fifty-four, had achieved an American dream never believed possible. The Election of 1980 had Unleashed the Wealthy, Greedy, Corrupt, and the politically Powerful from the Bonds of Shared Sacrifice and; empowered conservative ideology driven southern states to roll-back Supreme Court decisions and Laws guaranteeing civil rights of black and Latino Americans. He was harvested, convicted, and sentenced to prison for crimes fabricated by the US attorney, covered up by a Fraudulent Judgment on appeal, denied access to the Court to seek redress, and was held falsely imprisoned for 10 years all; covered-up by a corrupt conservative criminal justice system. Today at age 81, Garrett is among the millions of Americans driving past gated communities into cities with closed factories, boarded-up homes, and neighborhoods of unemployed, elderly, and less-advantaged Americans suffering the question, what happened to the American that We sacrificed so much to make great?
Two Faces Of Exclusion
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Author : Lon Kurashige
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Two Faces Of Exclusion written by Lon Kurashige and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with Social Science categories.
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it was a subject of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion story by examining the organized and well-funded opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in American politics, business, religion, and academia. In recovering this opposition, Kurashige explains the rise and fall of exclusionist policies through an unstable and protracted political rivalry that began in the 1850s with the coming of Asian immigrants, extended to the age of exclusion from the 1880s until the 1960s, and since then has shaped the memory of past discrimination. In this first book-length analysis of both sides of the debate, Kurashige argues that exclusion-era policies were more than just enactments of racism; they were also catalysts for U.S.-Asian cooperation and the basis for the twenty-first century's tightly integrated Pacific world.
The Two Faces Of January
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Author : Patricia Highsmith
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2014-06-10
The Two Faces Of January written by Patricia Highsmith and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with Fiction categories.
The award-winning “classic psychological thriller” by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley (USA Today). In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man’s body down the hotel hall, Rydal impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester’s younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos. A winner of a Crime Writers of America award, The Two Faces of January was the basis of a film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac. “An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel.” —The New York Times “Patricia Highsmith is one of the few suspense writers whose work transcends genre.” —The Austin American-Statesman
The Two Faces Of Institutional Innovation
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Author : Leonardo Avritzer
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-24
The Two Faces Of Institutional Innovation written by Leonardo Avritzer and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-24 with Political Science categories.
This book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, engendered the idea that all innovations are democratic and all democratic innovations are able to foster citizenship – a view challenged by this work. The book also evaluates the expansion of innovation to the field of judicial institutions. It will benefit democratic theorists by presenting a realistic analysis of the positive and negative aspects of democratic innovation.
America Is In The Heart
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Author : Carlos Bulosan
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
America Is In The Heart written by Carlos Bulosan and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Fiction categories.
First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
Faces Of America
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Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-07-06
Faces Of America written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-06 with History categories.
Shares the family trees and genetic profiles of twelve famous Americans from diverse backgrounds.
Two Faces Of America
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Author : David Welch
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-07
Two Faces Of America written by David Welch and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Fiction categories.
Two Faces of America is a serious look at how we live our lives in America now, as opposed to the way we used toathe way things have changed, with some of those changes resulting in considerable damage to our nation and the way it reflects on our daily lives. There is a twist though, not just a look at such damage and the corrective measures recommended by the author, but also insights from opposing viewpoints.