The fourth world; [electronic resource] victims of group oppression, eight reports from the field work of the Minority Rights Group. Edited by Ben Whitaker.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Ben Whitaker -- The measure of humanity / Milovan Djilas -- What do we mean by rights? / Philip Mason -- The Asian minorities of east and central Africa -- The southern Sudan and Eritrea -- The Africans' predicament in Rhodesia -- The position of Blacks in Brazilian society -- The two Irelands -- Religions in the Soviet Union (1960-1971) -- The Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans : Soviet treatment of two national minorities -- Japan's outcasts : the problem of the Burakumin -- Who's to blame? / Richard and Hephzibah Hauser.