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Bringing Human Rights Home

A History of Human Rights in the United States

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvCynthia Soohoo,Catherine Albisa,Martha F. Davis

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil and political rights and through the lens of particular economic rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights have been many, Bringing Human Rights Home demonstrates the strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and offers hope for its future.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Antal sidor424
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812220797

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Preface-Cynthia Soohoo, Martha F. Davis, and Catherine AlbisaPART I: A HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATESIntroduction to Part I-Martha F. DavisChapter 1. A Human Rights Lens on U.S. History: Human Rights at Home and Human Rights Abroad-Paul Gordon LaurenChapter 2. FDR's Four Freedoms and Wartime Transformations in America's Discourse of Rights-Elizabeth BorgwardtChapter 3. A "Hollow Mockery": African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States-Carol AndersonChapter 4. "New" Human Rights? U.S. Ambivalence Toward the International Economic and Social Rights Framework-Hope LewisPART II: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTSIntroduction to Part II-Catherine AlbisaChapter 5. Against American Supremacy: Rebuilding Human Rights Culture in the United States-Dorothy Q. ThomasChapter 6. Economic and Social Rights in the United States: Six Rights, One Promise-Catherine AlbisaChapter 7. Human Rights and the Transformation of the "Civil Rights" and "Civil Liberties" Lawyer-Cynthia SoohooChapter 8. "Going Global": Appeals to International and Regional Human Rights Bodies-Margaret HuangChapter 9. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: States, Municipalities, and International Human Rights-Martha F. DavisChapter 10. The Impact of September 11 and the Struggle Against Terrorism on the U.S. Domestic Human Rights Movement-Wendy PattenChapter 11. Bush Administration Noncompliance with the Prohibition on Torture and Cruel and Degrading Treatment-Kathryn SikkinkChapter 12. Trade Unions and Human Rights-Lance CompaAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments