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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame by Peter Dreier
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Nation, 2012.
An Encyclopedia of Human Rights in the United States by H. Victor Condé
Call Number: E-book
Amenia, NY: Grey House, 2011.
2nd edition
Are Human Rights Western? A Contribution to the Dialogue of Civilizations by Arvind Sharma
Call Number: E-book
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective by Elisabeth Reichert (Ed.)
Call Number: HV41.C364 2007 (LC WC)
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers by David G. Gil
Call Number: HM216.G457 1998 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998
ALSO AVAILABLE: 2013 Updated with a New Preface edition at the Fordham Westchester Library, HM216.G457 2013.
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
Call Number: E184.I6 I36 1995 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Routledge, 1995.
Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work by Janet L. Finn; Maxine Jacobson
Call Number: HM671.F56 2008 (LC WC)
Peosta, IA: Eddie Bowers, 2008.
2nd edition
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Call Number: E184.A1 P23 2010 (RH LC)
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the 21st Century by Yves Haeck
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Springer, 2014.
Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions by Joseph Wronka
Call Number: HV41.W76 2008 (RH LC WC)
Los Angeles, CA: SAGE, 2008.
Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice by Jim Ife
Call Number: HV40.I34 2008 (LC WC)
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Rev. edition
ALSO AVAILABLE: 2012, 3rd. edition, at LC & WC, HV40.I34 2012.
Litigating the Rights of the Child: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Domestic and International Jurisprudence by Ton Liefaard
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Springer, 2015.
The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings by Joy James (Ed.)
Call Number: HV9468.N48 2005 (RH)
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Call Number: HD4918.E375 2001 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2001.
Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions by Joshua Miller; Ann Marie Garran
Call Number: E185.615.M525 2008 (WC)
Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2008.
Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice by Elisabeth Reichert
Call Number: HV41.R433 2011 (LC WC)
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2011.
2nd edition.
ALSO AVAILABLE: 2003 edition, LC & WC, HV41.R433.2003.
Social Work, Social Justice and Human Rights: A Structural Approach to Practice by Colleen Lundy
Call Number: HV41.L85 2011 (LC WC)
Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
2nd edition
ALSO AVAILABLE: 2004, first edition, LC & WC, HV40.L94 2004.
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger
Call Number: HD4903.5.U58 R643 2005 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005.
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
Call Number: HC110.P6 S48 2004 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Knopf, 2004.

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Books

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Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Call Number: HQ1237.B38 2016 (WC)
New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2016.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Call Number: HN90.S6 I84 2016 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY, Viking, [2016].
Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman
Call Number: JK275.G645 2016 (WC)
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation by Tina Maschi
Call Number: HV40.M37 2016 (LC WC)
New York, NY: Springer, 2016.
Fordham faculty author
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
Call Number: KMH110.I23 A3 2016 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Random House, [2016].
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin; H. Luke Shaefer
Call Number: HC110.P6 E343 2015 (RH LC WC)
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa by Dayo Olopade
Call Number: E-book
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers by David G. Gil
Call Number: HM216.G457 1998 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Conservative Christian Beliefs and Sexual Orientation in Social Work: Privilege, Oppression, and the Pursuit of Human Rights by Adrienne B. Dessel; Rebecca Morris Bolen
Call Number: HV11.C71834 2014 (WC)
Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press, 2014.
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel
Call Number: HD6509.C48 P38 2014 (WC)
New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Debating Human Rights by Daniel P. L. Chong
Call Number: JC571.C495 2014 (WC)
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2014.
Forensic Social Work: Psychosocial and Legal Resources Across Diverse Practice Settings by Carolyn Bradley; Tina Maschi; Kelly Ward
Call Number: KF8968.7.F67 2009 (LC WC)
New York, NY: Springer, 2009.
Fordham faculty author
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Call Number: DS481.G3 G824 2014 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements by William T. Armaline
Call Number: JC571.A7153 2015 (RH)
Malden, MA: Polity, 2015.
The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross by David P. Forsythe
Call Number: HV568.F67 2005 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness And An Agenda for Change by Stephen P. Hinshaw
Call Number: RC455.2.P83 H56 2007 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard
Call Number: HD9415.L46 2014 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950.A437 2010 (RH LC)
New York, NY: The New Press, 2010.
The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners After 9/11 by David P. Forsythe
Call Number: HV8599.U6 F67 2011 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
The Reawakening by Primo Levi
Call Number: D811.L48913 1995 (WC)
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

More Books

My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King; Barbara Reynolds
Call Number: E 185.97.K47 A3 2017 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill
Call Number: RA395.A3 B6745 2015 (WC)
New York, NY: Random House, 2015.
Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights by Debra Bergoffen (Ed.); Paula Ruth Gilbert (Ed.)
Call Number: HQ1236.C626 2011 (WC)
New York, NY: Routledge, 2011.
Human Rights: Old Problems, New Possibilities by David Kinley (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Cheltenham, UL: Edward Elgar, 2013.
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Call Number: HQ1413.S675 A3 2015 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Random House, 2015.
The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem by Ethan Gutmann
Call Number: HV6627.G88 2014 (LC)
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2014.
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly
Call Number: E-book
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
3rd edition

Additional Books

The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights by Ana Vrdoljak (Ed.)
Call Number: K3240.C85 2013 (WC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science by Nathalia Holt
Call Number: RA643.86.G2 H65 2014 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Dutton, [2014].
Gender and Global Justice by Alison M. Jaggar (Ed.)
Call Number: K644.G45 2014 (RH)
Malden, MA; Polity, 2014.
Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by Steven T. Newcomb
Call Number: E-book
Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2008.
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn
Call Number: HV48.K45 2014 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Call Number: DT450.435.G68 1998 (RH LC WC)
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
Ants among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
Call Number: (LC) DS422.C3 G54 2017
Publication Date: 2017
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux