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Ein alarmierender Appell gegen Menschenhass und den erstarkenden Antisemitismus in Deutschland. "Wenn du heute wieder nicht lustig bist, landest du im Aschenbecher!" "Mein Vater ist auch im KZ gestorben, besoffen vom Wachturm gekippt." "Musst du nicht weg? Der letzte Zug nach Auschwitz fährt doch gleich." "Juden wollen immer Mitleid!" Das sind nur ein paar der Sätze, die der Autor dieses Buches tagtäglich in Deutschland zu hören bekommt. Andere Menschen werden auf offener Straße angegriffen, weil sie eine Kippa tragen. Jüdische Schüler werden beschimpft.

Freiheit, Demokratie, Gerechtigkeit: Die Ideen des modernen Staats entstanden während der Aufklärung. Im 21. Jahrhundert haben wir uns längst daran gewöhnt. Dass Populisten mit dem Versprechen einer autoritären Gesellschaft Mehrheiten organisieren, ist dagegen eine neue Erfahrung. Der Historiker Philipp Blom sieht die westlichen Gesellschaften vor einer prekären Wahl: radikale Marktliberale einerseits, autoritäre Populisten andererseits. Sie gaukeln uns einfache Lösungen für die globalen Herausforderungen vor.

"Non sono razzista, ma" illustra un meccanismo psicologico tanto elementare quanto diffuso, che mira a prendere le distanze dalle parole e dagli atti che ci tradiscono e contraddicono ciò che pensiamo di essere, o che magari vogliamo far intendere di essere. Ma ormai è entrata in crisi l'interdizione morale nei confronti di parole e atti xenofobi, che aveva costituito una sorta di presidio linguistico e culturale, ma anche sociale e politico, rispetto al ricorso a pratiche di esclusione e discriminazione. Forse davvero sta cadendo il tabù del razzismo nella società italiana.

In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and firsthand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic but persistent class structure.

This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war. Two new forewords by Robert K. Brigham of Vassar College and Jeffrey Record of the Air War College explore the book's enduring influence. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict.

Mit Barack Obama sollte die amerikanische Gesellschaft ihren jahrhundertealten Rassismus überwinden. Am Ende seiner Amtszeit zerschlugen sich die Reste dieser Hoffnung mit der Machtübernahme Donald Trumps, den Ta-Nehisi Coates als "Amerikas ersten weißen Präsidenten" bezeichnet: ein Mann, dessen politische Existenz in der Abgrenzung zu Obama besteht. Coates zeichnet ein bestechend kluges und leidenschaftliches Porträt der Obama-Ära und ihres Vermächtnisses.

On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within 24 hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation's imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching. In this superbly written examination of the murder and its aftermath, award-winning journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene.

On les appelle les Big Datas. Google, Apple, Facebook ou Amazon, ces géants du numérique, qui aspirent à travers Internet, smartphones et objets connectés, des milliards de données sur nos vies.Derrière cet espionnage, dont on mesure chaque jour l'ampleur, on découvre qu'il existe un pacte secret scellé par les Big Datas avec l'appareil de renseignement le plus puissant de la planète. Cet accouplement entre les agences américaines et les conglomérats du numérique, est en train d'enfanter une entité d'un genre nouveau.

Edward Snowdens Enthüllungen haben die Spielregeln der Politik verändert: Sie wird sich nie wieder auf wohl gehütete Geheimnisse verlassen können. Dafür war Snowden bereit, seine berufliche und private Existenz zu opfern - woher kommt dieser starke Wille? Mark Hertsgaard beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit dem Thema Whistleblowing, jetzt hat er jene zwei Männer getroffen, die sich Snowden bei seiner Aktion zum Vorbild nahm.

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised.

The public intellectual in India is an endangered species. Should we care? In this well-argued book, Romila Thapar and others tell us why we should. Thapar begins by defining the critical role that such individuals play in our societies today. Collectively they are the objective, fearless, constructive voice that asks the awkward questions when government, industry, religious leaders and other bulwarks of society stray from their roles of ensuring the proper functioning of a country.

Lorsque mon père est décédé j'ai placé des objets dans son cercueil. Je n'en ai parlé à personne. Puis j'ai interrogé des médiums qui disent communiquer avec les morts. Découvriront-ils de quels objets il s'agit ? C'est le test. Peut-on parler avec les morts ? Des femmes et des hommes le prétendent et en font même profession. Des milliers de gens les consultent. Ces capacités sont-elles réelles ou sont-elles une illusion ? Pour répondre à ces interrogations, Stéphane Allix a interrogé six médiums.

In Coming Home Again, celebrated novelist Chang-rae Lee, author of On Such a Full Sea and Native Speaker, recalls the year he spent living at home, learning to cook the Korean dishes of his childhood, before his mother died of stomach cancer. An achingly personal story about love, grief, and regret, Coming Home Again confronts the decisions we can't take back and the moments we can't let go with astounding grace and poignancy.

In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the media began to pay greater attention to deadly interactions between black men and the law. But when reporters tried to get to the bottom of some basic questions. they came up blank.

From James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening examination of what we don't talk about when we talk about restaurants: Is the line cook working through a case of stomach flu because he doesn't get paid sick days? Is the busser not being promoted because he speaks with an accent? Is the server tolerating sexual harassment because tips are her only income?

The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black first family, the Obamas.

In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city's built environment, a meditation on the author's relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking.

Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake "Mustafa Bayoumi" was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an "anti-American, pro-Islam" agenda, and was asked by a US citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981) - author of the 1958 national best seller Only in America - illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago, some fantastically so, as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales - his own included - that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. We meet a child with two mothers, made with one mother's egg and the sperm of a man none of them has ever met and carried by the other mother.