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1 online resource (334 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v.309
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American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- IRINA BRITTNER, SABINE N. MEYER, AND PETER SCHNECK: Introduction -- The Social and Historical Reality of Rights in the U.S. -- LETI VOLPP: Refugees Welcome? -- BLAIR L.M. KELLEY: Unabated Protest: American Citizenship and African American Resistance to Jim Crow Segregation -- SUSAN N. HERMAN: On Balancing Liberty and National Security -- MICHAEL DREYER: Civil Rights from the Bench? The U.S. Supreme Court between Originalism and the Living Constitution |
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CURD BENJAMIN KNÜPFER: Technological Innovation and Bottom-Up Democracy: Acknowledging the Crises and Re-Affirming the Research Agenda -- Literature and the Question of Rights -- CHAD LUCK: Debt Reckoning: Equity, Property, Bartleby -- KATRIN HORN: Right or Obligation? Privacy in Henry James' 'The Bostonians' -- JULIUS GREVE: Ventriloquism Against the Copyright of the Concept: Authorial Suspension and Modernist Perfomativity -- SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN: Law as Algorithm: Legal Discourse, the Data Imaginary and the 1839 'American Slavery as It Is' |
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INA BATZKE: Contesting Traditional Imaginaries of Citizenship: José Ángel N.'s 'Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant' -- KERSTIN KNOPF: The Gendered Prison: Female Bodies and the Carceral Space in American Women's Prison Literature -- Negotiating Rights in Popular Culture -- KATJA KANZLER: Female Lawyer Figures in Contemporary TV Legal Drama: Embodiment and Gender in Figurations of the Legal Process -- JOSEF RAAB: The Disenfranchised Latin@ Alien in 'The X-Files' and Beyond -- INGRID GESSNER: Picturing Ebola: Photography as an Instrument of Biopolitical (In)Justice |
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MIRJA BEUTEL: 'The Sopranos' and Minority Rights: A Cosmopolitan Approach for the EFL Classroom -- Contributors -- Backcover |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Human rights -- United States.
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Human rights. |
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United States. |
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Civil rights -- United States.
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Civil rights. |
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Human rights in literature.
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Human rights in literature. |
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Human rights in mass media.
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Human rights in mass media. |
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Human rights. |
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Meyer, Sabine N.
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Schneck, Peter.
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Print version: Brittner, Irina We the People? : The United States and the Question of Rights Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter,c2020 9783825347628 |
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3825379884 |
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9783825379889 (electronic book) |
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