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CURRENT EVENTS AND ISSUES

FORTHCOMING
Encyclopedia of American

Civil Rights and Liberties

Revised and Expanded Edition

4 VOLUMES | KARA E. STOOKSBURY,
JOHN M. SCHEB II, AND OTIS H. STEPHENS JR., EDITORS

Over the past 10 years, there have been

both advancements and setbacks in U.S.
ABC-CLIO civil rights and liberties: the rights of
September 2017, 1,484pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-1-4408-4109-5 corporations and LGBT people have been
$435.00, £335.00, €396.00 extended, but the rights of African American
eBook: 978-1-4408-4110-1
voters have gone backwards.

S AMPLE T OPICS
• Asylum This revised and expanded four-volume encyclopedia is unequaled for both
• Burwell v. Hobby Lobby the depth and breadth of its coverage. Some 650 entries address the full
• Gay Rights range of civil rights and liberties in America from the Colonial Era to the
• Voting Rights present. In addition to many updates of material from the first edition, the
work offers 75 new entries about recent issues and events; among them,
• Government Surveillance
dozens of topics that are the subject of close scrutiny and heated debate
• Guantanamo Bay
in America today. There is coverage of controversial issues such as voter ID
• Immigration laws, the use of drones, transgender issues, immigration, human rights, and
• Native American Rights government surveillance. There is also expanded coverage of women’s rights,
• Religious Freedom Laws in the States gay rights/gay marriage, and Native American rights. Entries are enhanced by
• Transgender Issues 42 primary documents that have shaped modern understanding of the extent
• War on Terrorism and limitations of civil liberties in the United States, including landmark
• Women’s Rights statutes, speeches, essays, court decisions, and founding documents of
influential civil rights organizations.
Designed as an up-to-date reference for students, scholars, and others
KARA E. STOOKSBURY, PhD, is chair of the
Department of History, Political Science, and interested in the expansive array of topics covered, the work will broaden
Sociology as well as associate professor of readers’ understanding of—and appreciation for—the people and events that
political science at Carson-Newman University. secured civil rights guarantees and concepts in this country. At the same time,
JOHN M. SCHEB II, PhD, is professor of political it will help readers better grasp the reasoning behind and ramifications of
science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 21st-century developments like changing applications of Miranda Rights and
OTIS H. STEPHENS JR., JD, PhD, is professor government access to private Internet data. Maintaining an impartial stance
emeritus of law and political science at the throughout, the entries objectively explain the varied perspectives on these
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
hot-button issues, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions.

FEATURES
• Offers 686 alphabetically arranged entries, ranging from thoroughly
updated entries from the first edition to 75 new entries that cover
dramatic changes in civil rights and liberties in the last decade

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