Political Science - Human Rights

"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail." -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal was released...

A magisterial, groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them--and their hard-won political knowledge--rightly at the center of the fight for freedom The enduring image of American slavery has been of workers trapped...

Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill's complete and resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this treatise, an enduring work through which the concept remains...

Chomsky and Pappéeacute; discuss the past and future of Palestine.Author: Noam Chomsky,Ilan PappéPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 04/07/2015Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9781608464708About the AuthorNoam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy in...

Since Hamas's attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people...

One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020 Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019 Shortlist, Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize,...

In New York City back in April of 1874, a most unusual event took place. A severely abused nine-year-old girl named Mary Ellen Wilson became the first child in America to be rescued from an abusive home. She had been beaten, burned, slashed with...

How the failure to protect incarcerated people from infections has led to preventable outbreaks--and how public health professionals can make a difference.In late 2019, Dennis Oya's persistent cough was just the beginning of a harrowing tale of neglect and systemic failure in a Washington...

A highly engaging, yet hearbreaking account of the Irish's plight due to the Great Potato Famine. Gallagher explains why and how the famine happened, but also details the agonizing human experience of life in Ireland and aboard devastatingly crowded ships in search of a...

A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on...

"A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine." --Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine's leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man's wanderings through the landscape he loves--once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls--updated with a new...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." -Robin D. G. Kelley Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." -Robin D. G. Kelley Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is...

Philosophy of Human Rights provides the context and commentary students need to comprehend challenging rights concepts. Clear, accessible writing, thoughtful consideration of primary source documents, and practical, everyday examples pertinent to students' lives enhance this core textbook for courses on human rights and political...

A heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homelandThe human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed...

"With laser-like precision, Graham fuses together our collective cultural memory and experience as he captivatingly describes "the contract" so many of us sign. A tacit agreement to don the cloak of cultural invisibility in exchange for the basement keys to the palace." - Dr....

The chapbook Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender (or how I became a punk rock lawyer) by Juanita E. Mantz, Esq. is a multi-genre chapbook containing memoir pieces, social justice essays, and poetry. It describes the author's love of punk rock and her quest...

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Award"An artistic triumph that will stand as an enduring testament to the spirit of the Palestinian people. Mohammad Sabaaneh is a master."--Joe Sacco, winner of the American Book Award for PalestineWhat does freedom look like from inside an...

A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 - One of The Hill Times' Top 100 Best Books in 2025 - Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book AwardA series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global systems of migrant...

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected. Both movements were born out of the desire to love and build families of our choosing--when and how we decide. Both movements are rooted in broader social justice liberationist traditions that center the...