Human Rights

Seemingly there is no political debate which does not devolve into an argument over rights. For centuries a cornerstone of liberal theory, rights c...

In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African American was more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B. Wells. Her crusade again...

Margaret Blanchard has had experience as a newspaper reporter as well as a teacher of journalism. Her book is a broad-gauged discussion of freedom ...

How Long?, How Long? retells the story of the civil rights from the previously overlooked perspective of its African-American women participants. A...

A comprehensive interpretation of Locke's argument for the legitimacy of private property.

Johnson's unprecedented role as civil rights leader and literary artist was a dual one that has not been replicated since his time. This volume co...

In June 1964, over 1,000 volunteers - most of them white, northern college students - arrived in Mississippi to campaign for black enfranchisement ...

Borstelmann's book has a controversial thesis that impinges greatly on the nature of USA anti-communist foreign policy in the years after the Secon...

Drawing on sources ranging from political philosophers to court records and newspaper essayists, Printers and Press Freedom traces the development ...

This book delineates the important issues and ideas that developed out of the political experience of the Civil Rights Movement, and argues that th...

The two volumes edited by Dr Wilson, Director of the John Memorial Foundation, make an important body of Johnson's writings more readily available ...

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to...

Factors such as inequality, gender, globalization, corruption, and instability clearly matter in human trafficking. But does corruption work the sa...

The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. The struggle fo...

This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and contemporary aspects of the confli...

This book challenges the dominant approach to problems of justice in global normative theory and offers a radical alternative designed to transform...

This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to tra...

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In most ...

The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today. However, not all authoritarians are the same. T...

Greta Thunberg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anita Sarkeesian. Emma Gonzalez. When women are vocal about political and social issues, too-often they a...

In 2003, the United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human ri...

The United States has a hate problem. In recent years, hate speech has led not only to deep division in our politics but also to violence, murder, ...

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements...

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings...

Why do countries adopt criminal legislation making it possible to prosecute government and military officials for human rights violations? Over the...

The Government has named the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance...

This book starts from the position that gender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights First and developing worlds; ...

The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violati...

A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash again...

Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy. The United States, through its local, state, and national contes...

The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity. Its narrative and...