Human Rights in Our Own Backyard : : Injustice and Resistance in the United States / / ed. by William T. Armaline, Bandana Purkayastha, Davita Silfen Glasberg.

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• MitwirkendeR: Acosta, Katie,; Adur, Shweta Majumdar,; Allen, Jennifer,; Armaline, William T.,; Beeman, Angie,; Blau, Judith,; Casey, Colleen,; DeLeon, Abraham P.,; Elkins, Julie,; Frelick, Bill,; Fullerton, Andrew S.,; Glasberg, Davita Silfen,; Gurr, Barbara,; Hammer, Zoe,; Hertel, Shareen,; Iwata, Miho,; Katuna, Barret,; Kil, Sang Hea,; Missari, Stacy A.,; Neubeck, Kenneth J.,; Pearce, Tola Olu,; Ploch, Amanda,; Purkayastha, Aheli,; Purkayastha, Bandana,; Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother,; Ray, Ranita,; Robertson, Dwanna L.,; Shannon, Deric,; Sok, Chivy,; Waring, Chandra,; Zozula, Christine,
• HerausgeberIn: Armaline, William T.,; Glasberg, Davita Silfen,; Purkayastha, Bandana,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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...

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