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Black Workers Remember
“During his fellowship year at the National Humanities Center [1995-96], Michael Honey, the author of a prize-winning book on labor and civil rights in the American South, is at work on a new project — an oral history of black workers at the time of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.” [Wayne Pond]
Civitas Latinoamericana
A discussion of human rights and civil societies in Latin America.
Chinese-American Crosscurrents
Jing Wang discusses human rights and American popular culture in mainland China. Cho-Yun Hsu discusses political crosscurrents between China nad the United States.
The Civil Society Part 4
Eduardo Rabossi discusses human rights in Argentina. Zhang Zhilian discusses intellectuals and politics in contemporary China.
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Tagged China, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Politics, South America
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The Case of Animal Rights
Do animals have rights? To what extent do animals participate in the human moral community? How should humankind view its ethical relationship to animals? Those questions are central to Tom Regan‘s book, The Case for Animal Rights, published in 1983 by the University of California Press and nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Tagged Animal Rights, Ethics, Human Rights, Philosophy, Pulitzer Prize
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