Moral Imperialism

Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol is Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at Levin College of Law, University of Florida. She is editor of Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology (NYU Press).

• I Civil and Political Rights 1 Imperial Humanitarianism 2 Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights 3 Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims 4 Homophobia/Heterosexism in African Americans 5 Children and Right to a Fair Trial 6 Domestic and International Adoptions II Social, Cultural, and Economic Rights 7 Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship 8 The Recognition of the Individual 9 Rerouting the Race to the Bottom? 10 Both Work and Violence 11 Policing the Boundaries of Truth in Narratives 12 Imperial Knowledge 13 U.S. Policy on "Female Genital Mutilation" 14 Bridging False Divides 15 Membership Denied 16 The Moral High Ground? 17 Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in U.S. Courts 18 Climate Change, Opinions, and Imagination 19 Immigration, Poverty, and Transnationalism 20 Human Rights, Globalization, and Culture

""Too much of the literature in human rights has been limited to a consideration of the detail of specific civil and political rights. This book breaks this pattern by introducing political, economic, social, and theoretical issues in a single volume. Moral Imperialism is an interesting and informative collection and should become part of any syllabus on the international protection of human rights."" (Law and Politics Book Review)