Political Control & Freedoms

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to ...

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social J...

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of Amer...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.Despite democratisation, the ...

Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon's invasion, with one thousand armed guar...

Liberal democracy has provided a certain degree of lesbian and gay rights. But those rights, as we now know, are not unlimited, and they continue t...

Cleveland Sellers Jr. was the scapegoat for one of the bloodiest civil rights events of the 1960s. In 1968 state troopers gunned down black stude...

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for p...

Treason on the Airwaves traces the journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, an...

Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation’s most distinguished historians. E...

A trailblazing book that details the close historic ties between Black America and India over the decades

Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of d...

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society, and politics. It offers a detailed de...

Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Educationalists offer an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. They focus on key issues with broad relevance to social s...

This special issue brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to examine the relationship between cartography and the expression of ethn...

Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human devel...

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This series, now enteri...

A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes...

Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elect...

An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website A fresh new look at the Black Power movement and its leaders Much has been written about ...