
Journal of Civil and Human Rights
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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.
JCHR is published with the support of Sonoma State University.
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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 (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.
JCHR practices a double-blind review process. Because submissions are evaluated anonymously, the author’s name should appear only on the title page. Electronic versions of the manuscript should be submitted as Microsoft Word email attachments to ezra@sonoma.edu. Articles should ideally not exceed 10,000 words, not including notes, tables, etc. All article submissions should include an abstract no longer than 250 words and a brief author bio. Previously published work or work currently under consideration elsewhere will not be reviewed.
JCHR follows the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition). JCHR uses endnotes as the method of citation. Manuscripts not submitted in accordance to these standards may not be considered for review.
Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors may choose to enhance their work with illustrations. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain authorization from copyrights holders for images and text reprinted in the JCHR. Electronic and print rights are required. All illustrations are reproduced in black-and-white. The author is required to submit the original permission letters for all copyrighted material used in his/her manuscript. Authors should insert call-outs into the text where the images would appear (for example, <Insert Figure 1 near here>). All figures or illustrations should be submitted as TIFF image files formatted as 300 dpi grayscale and line art should have a resolution of 1200 dpi or better.
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