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1) Democracy, if we can keep it: the ACLU's 100-year fight for rights in America

Author

Cose, Ellis

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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"For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, servingas an "embedded journalist" with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America, the most authoritative...

2) Color-blind: seeing beyond race in a race-obsessed world

Author

Cose, Ellis

Pub. Date

[1997]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions, fears, hopes and illusions embedded in our complicated perceptions of race. Looking beyond the platitudes and pronouncements that tend to distort reality...

3) The short life and curious death of free speech in America

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Cose, Ellis

Language

English

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Examines how free speech in the United States has been corrupted by the politically powerful and how the contemporary landscape of social media and social polarization have eroded the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect speech.

4) Race and reckoning: from founding fathers to today's disruptors

Author

Cose, Ellis

Pub. Date

[2022]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have proliferated...

5) Bone to pick: of forgiveness, reconciliation, reparation, and revenge

Author

Cose, Ellis

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

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In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of the power of reconciliation, the efficacy of revenge, and the possibility of forgiveness. People increasingly are searching for ways to put the demons of the past to rest. That...