Human Rights Resources

Book Recommendations

• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (opens in new window) by Kevin Boyle
• Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (opens in new window) by Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith
• I am Malala (opens in new window) by Malala Yousafzai
• Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (opens in new window) by Amartya Sen
• Inventing Human Rights: A History (opens in new window) by Lynn Hunt
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (opens in new window) by Bryan Stevenson
• Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights (opens in new window) by Juan E. Mendez
• The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents From Ancient Times to the Present (opens in new window) by Micheline Ishay
• The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (opens in new window) by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Journals

• International Journal of Human Rights Education (opens in new window)

Teaching Human Rights

Art

• Art for Social Change (opens in new window)
• Ai Weiwei Project on Alcatraz Creates Dialogue about Prison System (opens in new window)

Literacy and Cultural Studies

• Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (opens in new window) by Alexandra Schultheis Moore & Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg