Dissertations / Theses: 'Civil rights in literature'

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Gram, Margaret Hunt. "Matters of State: American Literature in the Civil Rights Era." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11083.

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"Matters of State: American Literature in the Civil Rights Era" argues that American writers engaged with the American civil rights movement as it unfolded by turning their attention to the state and the state's relationship to its subjects and by imagining new forms for both. Postwar American literary culture, then, understood racial inequality not solely as a problem of identity and difference, nor simply as an economic problem, but as a problem of formal citizenship. Between around 1948 and around 1968, that problem as such spurred diverse and unruly literary inquiries into a range of matters of state, each taken up in dialogue with American constitutional law and each also a meditation on the particular capacities of literary art as a site for political thinking. William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor tried to reimagine the structure of federalism; James Baldwin and Harper Lee interrogated the real workings of democracy; Chester Himes and Sam Greenlee asked whether social movements ought to collaborate with the existing U.S. state in the first place; Norman Mailer, William Styron, Amiri Baraka, and others reoriented literary culture toward a new, post-civil-rights set of questions. Read as one archive, the novels and plays and essays that they produced tell a new story about American literature at midcentury: a story about literature's quasi-autonomous engagement with the political-theoretical questions that racial inequality had rendered urgent. They remind us of the complexity of history itself, and of the difficulty and uncertainty obscured by triumphalist narratives of democratic liberalism's inevitable civil-rights redemption. And they afford a glimpse into the kaleidoscopic legal worldmaking for which literary art in general can be an arena.

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Clyburn, Tiffani A. "African American Literary Counter-narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Era." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313514090.

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Chon-Smith, Chong. "Asian American and African American masculinities race, citizenship, and culture in post-civil rights /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3215133.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 21, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-256).

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Hall, Julie. "Representations of the civil rights movement and African American childhood in children's literature 1960-2008 an exploration and analysis of how civil rights movement is told to children through historical fiction." Thesis, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537502.

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Shaw, John Brendan. "Touching History to Find “a Kind of Truth”: Black Women’s Queer Desires in Post-Civil Rights Literature, Film, and Music." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468845503.

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Lawrence, Ariel D. "Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction and the Praxis of Survival in the Post-Civil Rights Era." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5450.

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The subject of my thesis project is black nonfiction, namely the essay, memoir, and autobiography, written by black authors about and during the Post-Civil Rights Era. The central goals of this work are to briefly investigate the role of genre analysis within the various subsets of nonfiction and also to exemplify the ways that black writers have taken key genre models and evolved them. Secondly, I aim to understand the historical, political, and cultural contributions of the Post-Civil Rights Era, which I mark as hitting its stride in 1968. It is not my desire to create a definitive historical framework for the Post-Civil Rights Era, but instead to understand it as a period of transition, revolt, and transformation which asked many important questions that have remained unanswered. I apply multiple theoretical frameworks to my research — like queer theory, Afro-pessimism, fugitivity, and more — to offer insights into the nonfiction works of writers such as James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Larry Neale, and Toni Cade Bambara. It is my hope to continue the work of such scholars as Hortense Spillers, Angela Ards, and Margo V. Perkins, by illustrating not only how these authors offered literary and aesthetic innovations, but also, through the archiving of their life experiences in print, create theories and practices for survival, forged in the past, which impact our current moment, and inspire us as scholars and activists to do the same.

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Ipema, Tim M. "The voices of protest in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Native Son /." View online, 1990. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880394.pdf.

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Böttcher, Jeannette U. [Verfasser]. "Towards a Cultura Franca : Contemporary American Civil and Human Rights Drama in the Foreign Language Classroom / Jeannette U. Böttcher." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1142096742/34.

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Jones, David Colin. "Apart and a part : dissonance, double consciousness, and the politics of black identity in African American literature, 1946-1964." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/apart-and-a-part-dissonance-double-consciousness-and-the-politics-of-black-identity-in-african-american-literature-19461964(10a43f75-7272-42c5-a39b-7f0e01f75902).html.

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This thesis examines the politics of black identity in African American literature during what has come to be known as the ‘age of three worlds’. Across four chapters, I analyse texts by Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry, exploring the way in which their writing plays out within and against the geopolitical exigencies of the Cold War and contemporaneous discourses of Civil Rights and black (inter)nationalism. In doing so, I explore the contrasting ways in which each of them displaces the binary logic that is typically seen as defining the 1950s, as a means of reconstituting both American and African American identity. Rejecting either/or identities, they all decentre prevailing notions of national and cultural identity by juxtaposing them with alternative spaces and temporalities, the result of which is a dual perspective that is simultaneously local and transnational. By extricating themselves, whether physically or intellectually, from a monolithic discursive framework, Ellison, Wright, Baldwin, and Hansberry recast the idea of double consciousness famously articulated by W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Instead of being a self-negating non-identity that serves as the psychological corollary to African Americans’ marginalised status, ‘two-ness’ is transmuted into a privileged vantage point that allows them to both intervene on the world historical stage as empowered modern subjects and renegotiate their relationship with the United States. What this two-ness amounts to, I argue, is a kind of dissonance. ‘Dissonance’, Duke Ellington claimed in 1941, names black people’s ‘way of life in America. We are something apart, yet an integral part’. The principle of introducing a ‘wrong’ note into a piece of music in order to generate new modalities of expression found in jazz is transposed into a social and literary context by the writers examined in this thesis. Each of them embodies and mobilises the socially grounded sense of being apart and a part alluded to by Ellington as a means of defamilarising normative notions of race, gender, and sexuality as they pertain to American-ness. In their place, they posit alternative forms of knowledge and politicised identity that reconstitute what it means to be both black and American in the middle of the twentieth century.

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Arthur, Susan B. "Atticus and the Law." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1607169386802922.

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Capelle, Bailey A. "Contextualizing Chester Himes's Trajectory of Violence Within the Harlem Detective Cycle." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1430813651.

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Butcher, Santana Kasey. "From the Classroom to the Movement: Schoolgirl Narratives and Cultural Citizenship in American Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468956893.

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Kolakoski, Mike. "The appeal to be heard and the trope of listening in classic film and African American literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3590009.

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This dissertation analyzes the narrative use of sound, the rhetorical appeal to be heard and the trope of listening in African American literature as well as Hollywood and international cinema. Contributing to the burgeoning fields of film sound and listening studies, Chapter One explores the relationship between the first experiments with synchronous sound recording technology and the construction of subjectivity along the lines of ethnicity, religion and gender in early talkies such as Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer and Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail. Chapter Two surveys a range of abolitionist texts and select essays from the Civil Rights movement—particularly David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Frederick Douglass's first autobiography Narrative of the Life and his novella "The Heroic Slave," W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!–in order to review the role of listening across racial divides in the United States. Chapter Three analyzes the multiple ways in which listening functions for narrative purposes in Wright's best-selling novel, Native Son; and Chapter Four addresses the trouble with listening in Wright's posthumous novel A Father's Law and Hitchcock's first color film, Rope.

Contributing to film studies, gender studies, and critical race theory, this thesis argues that the act of listening comes to function figuratively as a trope, signifying not only a means of recognition, interpellation and subjugation of an Other but also an instrument of justice; a matter of politics; a means of education; a potential remedy for alienation, while at the same time working as a tool of oppression; a formative act in familial and other social relations; a governing form of surveillance; an audial gaze, so to speak; a way to frighten, or more generally, evoke emotion; a part of the therapeutic process; an indication of trust or confidence; a manifestation of (sexual) desire; and, last but certainly not least, an age old form of entertainment forever transformed by sound technology of the industrial age.

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Williams, Dennis II. "Portraiture and Text in African-American Illustrated Biographical Dictionaries, 1876 to 1917." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3666.

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Containing portraiture and biography as well as protest text and affirmative text, African- American Illustrated biographical dictionaries made from 1876 to 1917 present Social Gospel ideology and are examples of Afro-Protestantism. They are similar to the first American illustrated biographical dictionaries of the 1810s in that they formed social identity after national conflict while contesting concepts of social inferiority. The production of these books occurred during the early years of Jim Crow, a period of momentous change to the legal and social fabric of the United States, and because of momentous changes in modern American print industries. While portraits within the books simultaneously form, blur, and stabilize identity, biographies convey themes of perseverance, social equity, and social struggle. More specifically, text formed an imagined community in the African-American middle class imaginary. It worked together with image to help create a proto-Civil Rights social movement identity during the beginning of racial apartheid.

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Evans, Curtis Junius. "Evangelicals and the civil rights movement." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Hutchinson, Yvette. "Womanpower in the Civil Rights Movement." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625696.

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Bateman, Richard Gethin. "Improvising resistance : jazz, poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960-1969." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287563.

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This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the two forms afford each other symbiotic illumination. Close reading of jazz musicology in particular illuminates the directions taken by the literature of the period in a manner that has rarely been fully explored. By giving equal critical attention to the two artistic forms in relation to each other, the epistemological and social radicalism latent and explicit within them can more fully be understood. Through this understanding comes also a greater appreciation of the effects that the art of this period had upon the politics of civil rights and black nationalism in America - effects which permeated wider culture during a decade in which significant change was made to the legal position of African-Americans within the United States, change forced by a newly, and multiply, vocalized African-American consciousness. The thesis examines the methods by which jazz and literature contributed to the construction of new historically-constituted black subjectivities represented aurally, orally and visually. It looks at how the different techniques of each form converse with each other, and how they prompt consequential re-presentations and re cognizations of established forms from within and without their own continua. That examination is conducted primarily through forensic close readings of records made between 1960 and 1967, which though of widely differing styles nevertheless can be said to fall under the broad umbrella term of 'post-bop' jazz, alongside equally close readings of poetry written primarily by members of the New York wing of the equally broadly-termed Black Arts Movement [BAM] between 1964 and 1969.

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Chan, Kwong-chi Stanley. "The Hong Kong bill of rights : its legal and administration impact /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13552934.

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Lambertson, Ross. "Activists in the age of rights the struggle for human rights in Canada, 1945-1960 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37352.pdf.

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Hogg, Emily Jane. "Literature and the limits of human rights." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8250.

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In this thesis I argue that there are qualities of literary writing which can illuminate human rights discourse and, specifically, its limit points. I focus on one such limit-point: the difficulty of fully possessing human rights. Rights are most likely to be securely guaranteed under the legal system of a nation-state. However, such rights – possessed on the basis of citizenship rather than through humanness – are not always considered human rights. The position of the nation-state, the possibility of legal enforcement and the category of the human are therefore ambiguities for the discourse. Literary texts from two countries which have been central to debates about human rights – Uganda and South Africa – will provide the focus for this study. Joseph Slaughter proposes that the plot of the Bildungsroman both resembles and promulgates the citizenship model of human rights-possession. However, in texts addressing the involvement of children in war in Uganda, I read experiments with the Bildungsroman form to indicate human rights discourse’s preoccupation with merely human identity. Child soldier narratives appeal to a decontextualized, universal image of the child, while in the fiction of Goretti Kyomuhendo there is an excessive repetition of familial language and symbol which throws the traditional narrative arc of the Bildungsroman off course. Critics including Slaughter see literature as compensating for the ambivalence of human rights discourse about the possibility of its own enforcement through the law. Instead, I explore the ways in which certain texts, in the context of South Africa, enact their own irreducibility to legal categories. I make this argument through a discussion of the way the literature and the literary appear in the Report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission alongside readings of Antjie Krog’s Begging to Be Black and Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and The House Gun.

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Moores, Christopher. "From civil liberties to human rights? : British civil liberties activism, 1934-1989." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1760/.

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This thesis is about organizations working in the field of British civil liberties between 1934 and 1989. It examines the relationship between the concepts of civil liberties and human rights within a British context, and discusses the forms of political activism that have accompanied this subject. At the centre of this work is an examination of the politics of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), an organization that has played a key role in the protection and promotion of civil liberties from its formation in 1934. It also examines the activities of a range of other organizations that considered themselves to be active on such a subject. The thesis argues that thinking about civil liberties has been extended throughout the twentieth century to incorporate a more positive and broader conceptualization of rights. However, for all the increased importance of the politics of human rights, a tradition of civil liberties has remained crucial to organizations working within such a field. The thesis also seeks to demonstrate that concerns about civil liberties have often reflected the political ideologies of those acting on such issues. Whilst a large amount of conceptual agreement has existed over the importance of the subject within Britain, this has consistently been met with disagreement over what this means. NGOs have played crucial roles as mediators of such a conflict. In performing such a role, the civil liberties lobby has been characterised by a set of professional, expert activists that have, at times, been able and will to engage with radical political ideas.

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Kershaw, Christopher John. "Human rights perspectives in the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950309.

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Meir, Adiel. "Administrative detentions : balancing civil rights and national security." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31598.

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In response to the threat of modern terrorism, democratic governments take steps which curtail civil rights, ostensibly to protect national security. Administrative detention is one of the more commonly taken steps. This paper traces the history of civil liberties and administrative detention in Britain, Canada, the United States, and Israel and examines why democracies deem the continued use of this tool necessary in dealing with perceived national security threats. The advantage of the perspective gained from historical distance, and ways in which democracies might learn from each other's experiences will be explored. The first chapter will examine eras in which administrative detentions have been used, reasons they were deemed necessary, whom they were used against, and the procedures employed in imposing them. This reflection provides insight into what constitutes a true crisis in the life of a democracy, and when it has been considered appropriate to take extraordinary steps to curtail civil liberties in order to protect a nation's democratic way of life. The second chapter will survey the legal tools used to combat terrorism by the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, as these pertain to detention of immigrants, and to the relevant provisions in the Patriot Act. The detention of non-citizens as well as American citizens detained and classified as enemy combatants, raises profoundly important issues central to the meaning of life under constitutional government. The third chapter will highlight Israel, a unique democracy which has grappled with terrorism from its very inception. The manner in which Israel has used administrative detentions provides valuable lessons regarding methods which work, and methods which should not be sanctioned. The fourth chapter will address the use of security certificates in Canada. Although Canada's recent Supreme Court ruling that security certificates are unconstitutional should be lauded, solutions to the issues raised in balancing individual rights to procedural fairness and fundamental justice, against public safety, remain largely unexplored. Practical methods used by other Western democracies in order to reach a "middle ground" which would afford the detainee an appropriate measure of due process, while preserving national security, will be discussed.
Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Xu, Xiaofei. "International protection of civil rights versus state sovereignty." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6603.

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Kleopfer, Kirstie Lane. "Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1179431918.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 13, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: Norman Rockwell; civil rights; illustrations; African Americans. Includes bibliographical references.

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Henry, Elizabeth E. "Halting White Flight: Atlanta's Second Civil Rights Movement." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/31.

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Focusing on the city of Atlanta from 1972 to 2012, Halting White Flight explores the neighborhood-based movement to halt white flight from the city’s public schools. While the current historiography traces the origins of modern conservatism to white families’ abandonment of the public schools and the city following court-ordered desegregation, this dissertation presents a different narrative of white flight. As thousands of white families fled the city for the suburbs and private schools, a small, core group of white mothers, who were southerners returning from college or more often migrants to the South, founded three organizations in the late seventies: the Northside Atlanta Parents for Public Schools, the Council of Intown Neighborhoods and Schools, and Atlanta Parents and Public Linked for Education. By linking their commitment to integration and vision of public education to the future economic growth and revitalization of the city’s neighborhoods, these mothers organized campaigns that transformed three generations’ understanding of race and community and developed an entirely new type of community activism.

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Balasubramaniam, Usha. "Passengers' protection and rights in international civil aviation." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112598.

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Air transport is of critical importance to move passengers and cargo from one place to another on a global scale. Subsistence, sustenance, growth and profitability of the air transport industry are dependent on the demand for transport from passengers and cargo as the main sources of revenue of the airline industry. The forces of globalization and liberalization, coupled with the very rapid development of low-cost operators, have tempered the growth and profitability of the aviation industry whilst, at the same time, greatly increasing the consumer (passenger and air freight user) advantages in terms of expanding the gamut of their choices, better quality and lower prices. The ever-expanding markets in the Asia and Pacific region hold great promise for a rapid growth of the aviation industry in years to come.
Currently, the international civil aviation community is faced with many challenges evolving from globalization, liberalization of economic regulations, privatization of airlines and airports, commercialization of government services providers, increasing environmental controls, and the emerge of new technologies. To deal effectively with these challenges and issues will require a high level of cooperation among civil aviation authorities, airlines, airports, and providers of air services and products. Airlines under the new free trade regimes have been exposed to many changes and although GATS has an important role to play in this important field, the convergence of economic, safety, security and environmental issues makes a strong case for keeping regulation in these critical issues under the ICAO aviation umbrella.
As air transport experiences structural, policy and regulatory environment changes, in the era of free trade it would be interesting to critically examine the impact of the aforementioned changes on the rights and protection of passengers. In this relation, it becomes very important to review the international, regional, and national efforts which have been made to enhance consumer protection and also have an important bearing on the rights of airline passengers. The thesis also addresses some emerging, non-traditional consumer protection issues, such as health, racial discrimination and the rights of disabled passengers.
In view of the above, the well-developed consumer protection regimes in the United States and the European Union (EU) would be examined in depth and the results of its analysis would be used to develop a suitable model airline passenger protection in the rapidly expending economies of the Asia and Pacific Region.

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Hickmott, Alec Fazcakerley. "Randolph Blackwell and the economics of civil rights." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7380/.

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The life of Randolph Blackwell (1927-1981) provides a new lens through which to view the evolution of African American politics during the 20th century. Though perhaps most recognizable as a member of Martin Luther King‘s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Blackwell‘s career as an activist had dimensions far broader than that of non-violent resistance. Most importantly, Blackwell‘s thought and praxis suggests the centrality of an economic and class-rooted analysis that endured far beyond the halcyon days of the Popular Front during the 1930s and 1940s. Through the medium of biography, this thesis charts the trajectory of Blackwell‘s political life. Beginning with his influence of his father—a member of Marcus Garvey‘s UNIA—Blackwell‘s journey intersected with some of the most foundational institutions and organisations shaping African American politics during the period under consideration, including Henry Wallace‘s Progressive Party of the late 1940s, the NAACP, the Voter Education Project and the SCLC. This thesis also ventures into unchartered territories, particularly in its description of Blackwell‘s post-civil rights career. In 1966, Blackwell founded Southern Rural Action, a non-profit private organisation dedicated to the cause of working class empowerment in some of the most impoverished counties in the South. Delineating Blackwell‘s unique, geographically centered vision of southern rebirth between 1966 and 1977, this thesis provides the first account of a long-ignored chapter in the history of "civil rights" organizing in the post-King years. Finally, Blackwell‘s work for the Federal Government as head of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise is given its due consideration.

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KLEOPFER, KIRSTIE L. "NORMAN ROCKWELL'S CIVIL RIGHTS PAINTINGS OF THE 1960s." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179431918.

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Topping, Simon David. "The Republican Party and civil rights, 1928-1948." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14424.

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Ball, David Howard Tekach-Ball Mara Roxanne. "A modular approach to human rights teaching /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1987. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1074096x.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: William C. Sayres. Dissertation Committee: Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Paul Byers. Bibliography: leaves 302-309.

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Rea, B. "Rights and the English liberal tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375983.

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Lindfelt, Mats. "Fundamental rights in the European Union - towards higher law of the land? a study of the status of fundamental rights in a broader constitutional setting /." Åbo : Åbo Akademi University Press [etc.], 2007. https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/4235/LindfeltMats.pdf?sequence=1.

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Hernandez, Agneta. "An examination of human rights violations in Latin America, 2002-2006 /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/263/.

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Mason, Betty G. Hopkins. "The degree of congruence between high school students' and administrators' perceptions of administrators' adherence to students' civil and human rights /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1986.

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Boyce, Anika Keys. ""What's Going On": Motown and the Civil Rights Movement." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/590.

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Thesis advisor: Lynn Lyerly
Based in 1960s Detroit, the Motown Record Company established itself and thrived as an independently run and successful African American business. Amidst humble origins in a two-story house outside of which Berry Gordy hung the sign, "Hitsville USA," Motown encouraged America's youth, urging them to look beyond racial divides and to simply sing and dance together in a time where the theme of unity was becoming increasingly important. Producing legends such as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Gladys Knight, and the Jackson Five, Motown truly created a new sound for the youth of America and helped shape the 1960s. Competing with the "British Invasion" and "the Protest Movement," in 1960s music, Motown is often said to have had little or no impact on the political and social revolution of the time because Motown did not produce "message music." The 2006 film, Dreamgirls even depicts Gordy and Motown as hypocrites and race traitors. Yet Motown embodied one of the principles the Civil Rights Movement preached most: black success and independence. Although the founder of Motown, Berry Gordy, never had the intention of proclaiming a message of black independence and empowerment through his actions of establishing an independent record company, he accomplished one of the goals of the Civil Rights Movement: black economic independence. The establishment and success of Motown was an intrinsically political act that served as proof to Civil Rights claims that African Americans could be just as independent and successful as whites
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: History Honors Program

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Tuck, Stephen George Newsam. "The civil rights movement in Georgia, U.S.A., 1940-1980." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624683.

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Pascale, Meredith Grace. "Determining a legacy John F. Kennedy's civil rights record /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Jackson, Frances Vinell. "Millennial Generation College Students' Participation in Civil Rights Causes." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7153.

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Similar to other generations, millennials are attracted to organizations whose causes align with their interests, yet millennial college students' participation in nonprofit voluntary organizations is declining in the United States. Little academic literature explores the causes for the declines in participation, particularly related to civil rights organizations on college campuses. As a result, grassroots civil rights organizations are viewed as dying. Using Howe-Straus' generational theory as a foundation, this case study was to gain the perspective of 20 millennial generation students born between 1980 and 2000 on three college campuses and three civil rights organizations in the southeastern United States. Data were collected from 20 millennial generation students in two phases. Participants completed Clary and Snyder's volunteer functions inventory prior to being interviewed with a focus on understanding the factors that motivate or serve as a disincentive for the millennial generation to volunteer in civil rights organizations on campus. Survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics; interview data were transcribed, inductively coded, and subjected to a thematic analysis procedure. Findings indicate that participants perceive that civil right organizations overlooked opportunities to engage in effective outreach and recruitment of millennial students by focusing on causes that are perceived to be of value to this population. Furthermore, organizations underutilize millennial-friendly outreach, including use of social media campaigns. The positive social change implications stemming from this study include recommendations to engage in recruitment activities that are appealing to the millennial generation in order to garner the contributions of this population of students.

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Soykan, Taskin Tankut. "The implications of the Copenhagen political criteria on the language rights of the Kurds in Turkey /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81236.

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In recent years, the attention is being increasingly drawn to the role of the European Union on the development of minority rights in the candidate countries. The adoption of the Copenhagen political criteria, which also require "respect for and protection of minorities," as preconditions that applicants must have met before they could join the Union has inevitably led to some policy changes to the minorities in Eastern Europe. This policy shift is particularly directed at minority language rights, because one of the most important aspects of the protection of minorities is the recognition of their linguistic identity. The aim of this study is to explore to what extent this development has influenced the situation of language rights of the Kurds in Turkey. In order to answer this question, it first examines the relationship between the Copenhagen criteria and international and European standards protecting minority language rights. Secondly, considering those standards, it assesses the achievements and failures of the recent legislative amendments which are directed to bring the language rights of the Kurds within the line of the Copenhagen criteria. The case of Turkey reveals the vast potential of the European enlargement process on the development of minority language rights, but also its limits in situations where there is a lack of political will to respect and protect diversity.

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Mireku, Obeng. "Constitutional review in federalised systems of government a comparison of Germany and South Africa /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45968842.html.

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Graffeo, Elizabeth Marie. "Evaluating Human Rights INGOs." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30821.

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Over the past several decades, the numbers of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) that focus on tackling human rights issues have grown rapidly. These organizations operate internationally and work with governments, legislatures, social movement leaders, activists, donors, and individual citizens. As the number of operating INGOs has risen dramatically, researchers have simultaneously begun to investigate the possibility of creating a global civil society that would govern itself in order to maintain peace, create global solidarity and achieve human rights. This research investigates the role of nonprofit organizations in developing a global civil society by evaluating U.S.-based organizations that are tapping into an often-uninvolved subset of societyâ American donors.
Master of Public and International Affairs

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CRUM, Ben. "The sediment of reason : basic rights in Germany and Great Britain." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5242.

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Defence date: 3 May 1997
Examining Board: Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladeur (EUI/Universität Hamburg - co-supervisor) ; Prof. Massimo La Torre (EUI) ; Prof. Steven Lukes (EUI/Università di Siena - supervisor) ; Prof. Albrecht Wellmer (Freie Universität Berlin)
First made available online 2 February 2017

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Cook, Liu Sau-fong Bernadette. "Civil liberties and the ICAC : an evaluative study /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13274788.

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Sharma, Parnesh. "The Human Rights Act, asylum, and the campaign against Section 55 : a case study of rights at work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:048c4c17-226d-4e51-9175-f342cdd75149.

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A major objective of the Human Rights Act (HRA) was to bring about a culture of rights in the UK. Its introduction fore-grounded questions about the use of rights to advance social justice issues and was the impetus for this research. At about the same as the Act came into effect another law, Section 55, an antithesis of what the HRA promised, was passed which forced thousands of asylum-seekers into destitution. Section 55 became a major battleground pitting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) against the Home Office in a three-year long campaign, characterised by rancour and viciousness, unlike any in recent memory. The NGOs, with the new HRA as a key part of their strategy, defeated the legislation. This thesis, a bottom-up case study of rights at work, examines the role of rights in the campaign to assess (1) if rights brought about social changes and (2) is a culture of rights developing in the UK? The paper first considers the various theoretical frameworks on rights and social change and analyses various case studies of rights at work. Context is important; therefore, it also examines how asylum has come to be framed in present-day discourse, with an overview on the evolution of welfare as a coercive measure. The study, framed against current events of the day, concludes that while test-case challenges eventually defeated Section 55 welfare as a coercive measure continues. In short, the HRA has proven to be ineffective against illiberal policies and the development of a culture of rights, insofar as asylum is concerned, has stalled. And it has happened with deliberation by a government determined to be tough on asylum irrespective of the HRA.

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Anderson, Kirsten N. "Challenging state human rights practices from the outside Argentina's transnational advocacy network during dictatorship, transition, and democratic rule /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0005400.

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Atchison, Robert Bryan 1970. "U.S. health care reform and medical privacy rights." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35424.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-99).
by Robert Bryan Atchison.
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Chow, Lok-ning Eric. "Policy-making in an executive-led government : an analysis of the equal opportunities bill and the human rights and equal opportunities commission bill /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1750790X.

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Henderson, Simon. "Shades of Grey-Race, Sport and the Civil Rights Movement." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512125.

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