Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0822352427, 0822352613 | 248 pages | PDF | 1 MB

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States. She explains how they reconstruct “sites of slavery”—contested figures, events, memories, locations, and experiences related to chattel slavery—such as the allegations of a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the characters Uncle Tom and Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, African American tourism to slave forts in Ghana and Senegal, and the legal challenges posed by reparations movements. By claiming and recasting these sites of slavery, contemporary artists and intellectuals provide slaves with an interiority and subjectivity denied them in American history, register the civic estrangement experienced by African Americans in the post–civil rights era, and envision a more fully realized American democracy.

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation: A Rights Research Manifesto
Springer | Social Sciences | November 8, 2015 | ISBN-10: 3319260340 | 99 pages | pdf | 1.91 mb

Authors: Maschi, Tina​​

Introduces a human rights framework that can be applied to social work research
Offers guidance on developing and implementing a rights-based approach to social work research and evaluation
Advances the relationship between human rights and social justice and individual, family, and community well-being​
Provides case examples

This brief introduces a human rights approach to social work research and evaluation, compares it to traditional research approaches, and explains how to apply it in real world social work research. The author draws from a human rights framework that incorporates dignity and respect for all persons, the universality and interrelatedness of rights (political, civil, social, economic, and cultural), nondiscrimination, participation, accountability, and transparency. To advance a human rights approach, it introduces a rights-based model that accentuates the use of mixed methods and participatory research and evaluation. This brief aims to increase competencies in how to apply a rights based approach to research decision-making process from the formulation of research questions, research and practice design, and participatory action strategies that advance human rights.​ It is a call to action for social workers to forge a rights-based research agenda that fosters empowerment.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

9 illustrations in colour

Topics

Social Work

Human Rights

Social Policy, Public Economics

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How We Think About Dementia: Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care (Repost)

How We Think About Dementia: Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care By Julian C. Hughes
2014 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1849054770 | PDF | 1 MB

Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage with the thoughts and arguments underpinning the experience of dementia and dementia care. Dementia is associated with ageing: what is the significance of this? People speak about person-centred care, but what is personhood and how can it be maintained? What is capacity, and how is it linked with the way a person with dementia is cared for as a human being? How should we think about the law in relation to the care of older people? Is palliative care the right approach to dementia, and if so what are the consequences of this view? What role can the arts play in ensuring quality of life for people with dementia? In answering such questions, Julian Hughes brings our attention back to the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, shedding new light on the significance and implications for those in the caring professions, academics and researchers, and those living with dementia and their families.

Individual Rights and Liberties Under the U.S. Constitution

Individual Rights and Liberties Under the U.S. Constitution: The Case Law of the U.S. Supreme Court by Ioannis G. Dimitrakopoulos
English | 1 May 2007 | ISBN: 9004157913 | 1140 Pages | PDF | 5 MB

This is a treatise on individual rights and liberties under the U.S. Constitution. The book contains reference to more than 2,500 opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, and covers, in a comprehensive way, ten major decisional areas: general issues of constitutional rights;