An International Relations scholar examines the processes by which formerly denigrated peoples become recognized as human beings worthy of rights and dignity

Differences between human beings have long been used to justify a range of degrading, exclusionary, and murderous practices that strip people of their humanity and dignity. While considerable scholarship has been devoted to such dehumanization, Matthew S. Weinert asks how we might conceive its reverse - humanization, or what it means to "make human.”