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Book Forced Out

Download or read book Forced Out written by Kevin Maxwell and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gay, black, British police officer’s memoir of prejudice, racism and homophobia on the force in the twenty-first century. Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force—he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a working-class family, he could easily have been a poster boy for the force’s stated commitment to equal opportunities. Joining just after the 9/11 attacks, Kevin entered policing determined to keep communities safe in the face of a changing world. But instead, he came up against entrenched prejudice, open racism and homophobia. For more than ten years, Kevin strove against the odds, until he took the force to an employment tribunal—with devastating results. Forced Out is a revelatory exposé combining deeply affecting memoir with sharp analysis and a fascinating insider perspective on day-to-day life in the force. It is a touchstone for the silent many who have either tried to ignore abuse for the sake of their career or who have been bullied out of their jobs. It paints a sobering portrait of an institution that has not yet learned the lessons of the past and whose prejudice is informing the cases it chooses to investigate and the way it investigates them. And it asks the important question: what needs to change? “One of the most compulsive books I’ve read in a long while.” –Bernadine Evaristo, award-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Book Forced Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gene Fehler
  • Publisher : Darby Creek ™
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 1467730556
  • Pages : 85 pages

Download or read book Forced Out written by Gene Fehler and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zack Waddell's baseball IQ makes him one of the Roadrunners' most important players. When a new kid, Dustin, immediately takes their catcher's spot, Zack is puzzled. Dustin doesn't have the skills to be a starter. So Zack offers to help him with his swing in Dustin's swanky personal batting cages. Zack accidentally overhears a conversation and figures out why Dustin is starting—and why the team is suddenly able to afford an expensive trip to a New York tournament. Will Zack's baseball instincts transfer off the field? Will the Roadrunners be able to stay focused when their team chemistry faces its greatest challenge yet?

Book Forced Out

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  • Author : Judy Y. Kawamoto
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 1646420705
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Forced Out written by Judy Y. Kawamoto and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland. In a series of beautifully written essays, Judy Kawamoto recounts her family’s flight from their home in Washington to Wyoming, their later moves to Montana and Colorado, and the influence of those experiences on the rest of her life. Hers is a story shared by the many families who lost everything and had to start over in often suspicious and hostile environments. Kawamoto vividly illustrates the details of her family’s daily life, the discrimination and financial hardship they experienced, and the isolation that came from experiencing the horrors of the 1940s very differently than many other Japanese Americans. Chapters address her personal and often unconscious reactions to her parents’ trauma, as well as her own subsequent travels around much of the world, exploring, learning, enjoying, but also unconsciously acting out a continual search for a home. Showing how the impacts of traumatic events are collective and generational, Kawamoto draws interconnections between her family’s displacement and later aspects of her life and juxtaposes the impact of her early experiences and questions of identity, culture, and assimilation. Forced Out will be of great interest to the general reader as well as students and scholars of ethnic studies, Asian American studies, history, education, and mental health.

Book Forced Out

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  • Author : Susan J. Terrio
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2024-02-20
  • ISBN : 147982352X
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Forced Out written by Susan J. Terrio and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Central American mothers share their stories about seeking protection in the U.S. as extortion and killing by criminal groups soared, as the abuse and murder of women exploded, and as the rule of law disintegrated in their home countries. They left home to ensure their own survival and to make a future for their children. Increasingly depicted as a national security threat as undocumented migrants, this is the story of their struggle to find a secure foothold in this country"--

Book Fired  Laid Off or Forced Out

Download or read book Fired Laid Off or Forced Out written by Richard C. Busse and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fired, Laid-Off or Forced Out takes the fear out of the possibility of losing your job and replaces it with specific guidelines any worker can use to protect his or her rights.

Book Forced Out and Fenced in

Download or read book Forced Out and Fenced in written by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An anthology of essays by migration scholars telling fieldwork-based stories of those affected by U.S. immigration law enforcement"--

Book Travel Team

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  • Author : Mike Lupica
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2024-04-02
  • ISBN : 0593692845
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Travel Team written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 Bestseller! Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court -- but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player and a bunch of never-say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot be measured. For fans of The Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, the Mighty Ducks, and Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestselling novels Heat, The Underdogs, and Million-Dollar Throw, here is a book that proves that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.

Book Forced Exit

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  • Author : Wesley J. Smith
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780812927900
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Forced Exit written by Wesley J. Smith and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the false premise of the euthanasia movement to make a compelling case against assisted suicide, "Forced Exit" reveals the horrors of the Netherlands, where 8.5 percent of all deaths are attributed to assisted suicide and where Dutch doctors have rapidly moved from euthanizing the terminally ill to killing infants with birth defects.

Book Against Their Will

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  • Author : P. M. Poli?an
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789639241688
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Against Their Will written by P. M. Poli?an and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During his reign, Joseph Stalin oversaw the forced resettlement of people by the millions - a maniacal passion that he used for social engineering. Six million people were resettled before Stalin's death. This volume is the first attempt to comprehensively examine the history of forced and semi-voluntary population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union. Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of repressed nationalities in the 1990s, dealing with internal (kulaks, ethnic and political deportations) and international forced migrations (German internees and occupied territories)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Driven Out

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  • Author : Jean Pfaelzer
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 9780520256941
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Driven Out written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.

Book People Forced to Flee

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  • Author : United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-02-16
  • ISBN : 019108977X
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book People Forced to Flee written by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes — war, conflict, violence, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change — are as familiar to readers of the news as to students of the past. It is 70 years since nations in the wake of World War II drew up the landmark 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. People Forced to Flee marks this milestone. It is the latest in a long line of publications, stretching back to 1993, that were previously entitled The State of the World's Refugees. The book traces the historic path that led to the 1951 Convention, showing how history was made, by taking the centuries-old ideals of safety and solutions for refugees, to global practice. It maps its progress during which international protection has reached a much broader group of people than initially envisaged. It examines international responses to forced displacement within borders as well as beyond them, and the protection principles that apply to both. It reviews where they have been used with consistency and success, and where they have not. At times, the strength and resolve of the international community seems strong, yet solutions and meaningful solidarity are often elusive. Taking stock today - at this important anniversary – is all the more crucial as the world faces increasing forced displacement. Most is experienced in low- and middle-income countries and persists for generations. People forced to flee face barriers to improving their lives, contributing to the communities in which they live and realizing solutions. Everywhere, an effective response depends on the commitment to international cooperation set down in the 1951 Convention: a vision often compromised by efforts to minimize responsibilities. There is growing recognition that doing better is a global imperative. Humanitarian and development action has the potential to be transformational, especially when grounded in the local context. People Forced to Flee examines how and where increased development investments in education, health and economic inclusion are helping to improve socioeconomic opportunities both for forcibly displaced persons and their hosts. In 2018, the international community reached a Global Compact on Refugees for more equitable and sustainable responses. It is receiving deeper support. People Forced to Flee looks at whether that is enough for what could – and should – help define the next 70 years.

Book Evicted

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  • Author : Matthew Desmond
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2017-02-28
  • ISBN : 0553447459
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Evicted written by Matthew Desmond and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Book Forced Out

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  • Author : Stephen Frey
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-07-28
  • ISBN : 1416549641
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Forced Out written by Stephen Frey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhappily retired Yankees scout Jack Barrett spots a remarkable minor-league ballplayer and hopes to bring the young athlete into the big leagues, an effort that is challenged by the boy's bad attitude and a dangerous secret.

Book Forced Founders

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  • Author : Woody Holton
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2011-01-20
  • ISBN : 0807899860
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Forced Founders written by Woody Holton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.

Book Forced Out

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  • Author : Simon Bywater
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-02-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Forced Out written by Simon Bywater and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the searingly honest story of a brave man who served his country in war and on the streets - and the appalling price he paid. Simon Bywater fulfilled his ambition to become a Royal Marine Commando by surviving a gruelling training, where mind and body were tested to the extremes. He learned jungle warfare with the aid of head-hunters in Brunei, saw a friend's leg sliced off by a propeller, and saved his colleagues from tragedy by spotting that live ammunition had been substituted for blanks during an exercise. But then came the Gulf War and even more horrific experiences in Northern Iraq, such as a truck load of Kurdish guerrillas spilling its occupants one by one as it careered down a mountainside, and children bartering live mines for food. Unknowingly suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, he joined the Greater Manchester Police, serving in crime-ridden estates where the culture of violence only added to his trauma. Even a move to the more tranquil Cambridgeshire Police failed to halt his breakdown. Simon Bywaters courage in telling all aspects of his story will undoubtedly help many others now suffering in silence and ignorance. 20 years after Forced Out was first written Simon talks about his journey afterwards in this special Edition

Book Forced Into Marriage  My Husband   s Too Mean

Download or read book Forced Into Marriage My Husband s Too Mean written by Miaomiao and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they met again, she had already become his wife, but he cruelly mocked her. "Lindsey Juhl, you’re not good enough!" After two years of contemplation, she finally saw through this man and left him. But why did this man suddenly chase after her when she was a thousand miles away?

Book Forced to Care

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evelyn Nakano Glenn
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 9780674048799
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Forced to Care written by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scouring the history of Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century reformatories, and programs to Americanize immigrants, Glenn brilliantly reveals the role of coercion in caregiving. An important read for us all."---Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind --