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From This is True for 8 September 2002 Suggestions for further reading:
Como hablar de sexualidad con los hijos/ How To Speak With Your Children Abou...  By: Miranda Hunter List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $22.95 Editorial Review: Americans whose skin color is even a shade darker than most descendants of Europeans have a long history of discrimination in the United States. Almost all minorities have had to stand up for their rights in the United States, even though the country was originally formed by immigrants. Hispanic Americans, like other minority groups, have had to fight to be treated fairly. Today, there are millions of Hispanics in the country, spread across every state of the nation. They are the fastest growing minority in the United States, but the fact that they are spread out tends to weaken their influence in any single region. Hispanics must unite to make their case known. This book will explain both the history and the current reality of the Latino civil rights movement. As this vital and growing population group takes it place in the twenty-first century, it will also help shape the course of America's future.  By: Larry A. Vanmeter List Price: $32.95 Amazon Price: $29.65 Editorial Review: "You have the right to remain silent" is the well-known introduction to a series of statements police are required to communicate to accused criminals upon arrest. Known as the Miranda warning, these famous instructions are a direct result of the Supreme Court case, Miranda v. Arizona. Ernesto Miranda, an Arizona laborer, was arrested in 1963 and convicted of raping a woman. He appealed his conviction and the Supreme Court overturned the decision, determining that Arizona authorities had violated two constitutional amendments. "Miranda v. Arizona" offers a clear understanding of the history of this decision and its consequences. Before the Miranda warning, it was not uncommon for police station confessions to be obtained by intimidation, making false promises, psychological game-playing, physical torture, or exploiting the ignorance of the accused. The Supreme Court's decision allowed that the privileges granted to a defendant in a courtroom - the right to counsel, the right to due process, and the right to not witness against oneself - were now extended to the police station.  By: G. S. Prentzas List Price: $26.50 Amazon Price: $26.50 Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France (Women in Culture and Soci... By: Miranda Pollard List Price: $55.00 Amazon Price: $55.00 Editorial Review: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed. |
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