Human Rights in Our Own Backyard : : Injustice and Resistance in the United States / / ed. by William T. Armaline, Bandana Purkayastha, Davita Silfen Glasberg.
Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rights-a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.S. adults believed that "the U.S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well, discussions among scholars and public...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Human Rights in the United States
- Part I. Economic Rights
- Chapter 1. Sweatshirts and Sweatshops: Labor Rights, Student Activism, and the Challenges of Collegiate Apparel Manufacturing
- Chapter 2. Labor Rights After the Flexible Turn: The Rise of Contingent Employment and the Implications for Worker Rights in the United States
- Chapter 3. Preying on the American Dream: Predatory Lending, Institutionalized Racism, and Resistance to Economic Injustice
- Part II. Social Rights
- Chapter 4. Food Not Bombs: The Right to Eat
- Chapter 5. The Long Road to Economic and Social Justice
- Chapter 6. Hurricane Katrina and the Right to Food and Shelter
- Chapter 7. Education, Human Rights, and the State: Toward New Visions
- Chapter 8. Health and Human Rights
- Part III. Cultural Rights
- Chapter 9. We Are a People in the World: Native Americans and Human Rights
- Chapter 10. Reflections on Cultural Human Rights
- Part IV. Political and Civil Rights
- Chapter 11. Erosion of Political and Civil Rights: Looking Back to Changes Since 9/11/01: The Patriot Act
- Chapter 12. U.S. Asylum and Refugee Policy: The "Culture of No"
- Chapter 13. The Border Action Network and Human Rights: Community-Based Resistance Against the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Chapter 14. Sexual Citizenship: Marriage, Adoption, and Immigration in the United States
- Chapter 15. Do Human Rights Endure Across Nation-State Boundaries? Analyzing the Experiences of Guest Workers
- Part V. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Chapter 16. From International Platforms to Local Yards: Standing Up for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the United State
- Chapter 17. Caging Kids of Color: Juvenile Justice and Human Rights in the United States
- Part VI. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- Chapter 18. "What Lies Beneath": Foundations of the U.S. Human Rights Perspective and the Significance for Women
- Chapter 19. Sex Trafficking: In Our Backyard?
- Chapter 20. The U.S. Culture of Violence
- Part VII. Human Rights and Resistance in the United States
- Chapter 21. Building U.S. Human Rights Culture from the Ground Up: International Human Rights Implementation at the Local Level
- Chapter 23. Human Rights in the United States: The "Gold Standard" and the Human Rights Enterprise
- Notes
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments