Bringing Human Rights Home

Cynthia Soohoo is Director of the U.S. Legal Program for the Center for Reproductive Rights. Catherine Albisa is Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. Martha F. Davis is Professor of Law and Codirector of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeastern University.

• 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