Human Rights

The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San socie...

A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.

From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and s...

Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what h...

Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the ...

The word ‘rationality’ and its cognates, like ‘reason’, have multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be contrasted with ration...

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The...

In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the ver...

Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebui...

Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he added a paragraph authorizing the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 me...

Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Throug...

The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and ...

When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians would like to believe that we have always been “on the side of the ...

Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters ...

In this enlightening and insightful monograph, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legac...

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The...

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists ...

A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.

In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facili...

In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facili...

The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterize...