Human Rights

The international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray. The sounds of war can be heard all around us, from Ukraine to Gaza, from Darfur to...

Since the late 1960s, the burgeoning gay rights movement has begun to have a profound effect on the politics of many American cities. This book pre...

Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights? Are there fundamental human values, regardless of cultural di...

Revolutions are often seen in terms of a spontaneous burst of intense political activity; less attention usually is given to the structures, proces...

The international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray. The sounds of war can be heard all around us, from Ukraine to Gaza, from Darfur to...

Timothy N. Thurber explores the links between Senator Hubert Humphrey's policies on racial justice and economic reform. Thurber investigates Humphr...

This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions w...

Few issues in American politics inspire such passion as that of civil rights for gays and lesbians. In this group of original essays, scholars and ...

Few issues in American politics inspire such passion as that of civil rights for gays and lesbians. In this group of original essays, scholars and ...

This book explores the various aspects of social justice--to each according to his rights, to each acording to his desert, and to each according to...

Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarsh...

In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visu...

What if Martin Luther King Jr., this name-branded, oft-sanitized preacher from Atlanta, is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon ...

Praise for Arundhati Roy: “Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing the...

Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Bo...

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras...

Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarsh...