Journal of Civil and Human Rights

Editor: Michael Ezra

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Issued biannually: Spring/Summer, and Fall/Winter
ISSN: 2378-4245
eISSN: 2378-4253

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Journal of Civil and Human Rights will cease publication after Volume 8, Number 2.

Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, academic journal dedicated to studying modern U.S.-based social justice movements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, influence, and legacies. The journal features research-based articles, interviews, editorials, state-of-the-field pieces, and book forums.

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Editors

Editor
Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Lauren Araiza, Denison University
  • Brian Behnken, Iowa State University
  • Dan Berger, University of Washington Bothell
  • Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh
  • Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
  • David Chang, University of Minnesota
  • Robert Chase, Stony Brook University
  • Karma Chavez, University of Texas
  • Daniel Cobb, University of North Carolina
  • Angela Dillard, University of Michigan
  • Ashley Farmer, University of Texas
  • Tiffany Florvil, University of New Mexico
  • Diane Fujino, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Marcia Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Dayo Gore, University of California, San Diego
  • Kali Gross, Rutgers University
  • Simon Hall, University of Leeds
  • Françoise Hamlin, Brown University
  • Hasan Jeffries, The Ohio State University
  • William Jones, University of Minnesota
  • Peniel Joseph, University of Texas
  • David Katzman, University of Kansas
  • Ibram Kendi, Boston University
  • Tracy K’Meyer, University of Louisville
  • Clarence Lang, Penn State University
  • Steven Lawson, Rutgers University
  • Alex Lubin, Penn State University
  • Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado
  • Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University
  • David Montejano, University of California, Berkeley
  • Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
  • Donna Murch, Rutgers University
  • Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College
  • Kim Nielsen, University of Toledo
  • Cynthia Orozco, Eastern New Mexico University
  • Sherry Smith, Southern Methodist University
  • Robyn Spencer, Lehman College
  • Marc Stein, San Francisco State University
  • Christopher Strain, Florida Atlantic University
  • Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Heather Thompson, University of Michigan
  • Zaragosa Vargas, University of North Carolina
  • Robert Warrior, University of Kansas
  • Rhonda Williams, Vanderbilt University
  • Yohuru Williams, University of St. Thomas
  • Komozi Woodard, Sarah Lawrence College

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Submissions

Journal of Civil and Human Rights

Journal of Civil and Human Rights is ceasing publication after Volume 8 and is no longer accepting submissions.

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Featured Articles



“Detroit under STRESS”: The Campaign to Stop Police Killings and the Criminal State in Detroit (pp. 1-34)
Austin McCoy
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.7.1.0001
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.7.1.0001

“The Thin Veneer of the North's Racial Self-Righteousness” Martin Luther King Jr.'s Challenge to Northern Racism
Jeanne Theoharis
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.7.1.0035
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.7.1.0035?refreqid=excelsior%3A6c936e294f6dad5b2834f7f052ee97f5

OA Content



Introduction: From the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands to Palestine
Karma R. Chávez
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0001

“Israel/Palestine and the Queer International,” August 28, 2013
Sarah Schulman and Karma R. Chávez
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0139

“In Our Power,” February 25, 2015
Nora Barrows-Friedman and Karma R. Chávez
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0128

“Settler Violence in Duma Village, West Bank,” September 9, 2015
Haitham Salawdeh and Karma R. Chávez
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0016

“The Firing of Steven Salaita,” September 3, 2014
Katherine Franke, Sarah Roberts and Karma R. Chávez
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0098

Preface
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.000v

Appendices
https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0175