1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996247970703316

Autore

Brown-Nagin Tomiko <1970->

Titolo

Courage to dissent [[electronic resource] ] : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement / / Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-025972-8

1-282-97778-4

9786612977787

0-19-975060-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (603 p.)

Disciplina

342.7308/5

Soggetti

Segregation - Law and legislation - Georgia - Atlanta - History

Segregation - Law and legislation - United States - History

Segregation - Georgia - Atlanta - History

Civil rights movements - Georgia - Atlanta - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era -- "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- pt. 2. The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960's -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964  -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967



-- pt. 3. Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.

Sommario/riassunto

The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction against centuries of racial discrimination. In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940's through 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that the movement featured a vast array of activists and many sophisticated approaches to activism. Long before ""black power"" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a new name, African Americans in Atlanta debated the meaning of equality and the step

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154750703321

Titolo

Advances in Game Theory. (AM-52), Volume 52 / / Melvin Dresher, Albert William Tucker, Lloyd S. Shapley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1964

ISBN

1-4008-8201-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (693 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 302

Disciplina

512.8

Soggetti

Game theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface / Dresher, M. / Shapley, L. S. / Tucker, A. W. -- Contents -- 1. Some Topics in Two-Person Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 2. Games With a Random Move / Restrepo, Rodrigo A. -- 3. A Search Game / Johnson, Selmer M. -- 4. The Rendezvous Value of a Metric Space / Gross, O. -- 5. Generalized Gross Substitutability and Extremization / Nikaidò, Hukukane -- 6. Adaptive Competitive Decision



/ Rosenfeld, Jack L. -- 7. Infinite Games of Perfect Information / Davis, Morton -- 8. Continuous Games of Perfect Information / Mycielski, Jan -- 9. A Theory of Pursuit and Evasion / Ryll-Nardzewski, C. -- 10. A Variational Approach to Differential Games / Berkovitz, Leonard D. -- 11. A Differential Game Without Pure Strategy Solutions on an Open Set / Berkovitz, Leonard D. -- 12. The Convergence Problem for Differential Games, II / Fleming, Wendell H. -- 13. Markov Games / Zachrisson, Lars Erik -- 14. Homogeneous Games, III / Isbell, J. R. -- 15. Solutions of Compound Simple Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 16. The Tensor Composition of Nonnegative Games / Owen, Guillermo -- 17. On the Cardinality of Solutions of Four-Person Constant- Sum Games / Galmarino, Alberto Raul -- 18. The Doubly Discriminatory Solutions of the Four-Person Constant-Sum Game / Hebert, Michael H. -- 19. Three-Person Cooperative Games Without Side Payments / Stearns, R. E. -- 20. Some Thoughts on the Theory of Cooperative Games / Jentzsch, Gerd -- 21. The Bargaining Set for Cooperative Games / Aumann, Robert J. / Maschler, Michael -- 22. Stable Payoff Configurations for Quota Games / Maschler, Michael -- 23. On the Bargaining Set M0 of m-Quota Games / Peleg, Bezalel -- 24. A Property of Stability Possessed by Certain Imputations / Radstrom, Hans -- 25. Coalition Bargaining in n-Person Games / Nering, Evar D. -- 26. The n-Person Bargaining Game / Miyasawa, Koichi -- 27. Valuation of n-Person Games / Selten, Reinhard -- 28. Mixed and Behavior Strategies in Infinite Extensive Games / Aumann, Robert J . -- 29. A General Solution for Finite Noncooperative Games Based on Risk-Dominance / Harsanyi, John C.

Sommario/riassunto

The description for this book, Advances in Game Theory. (AM-52), Volume 52, will be forthcoming.