Format:
1 online resource (340 pages)
ISBN:
9780812205145
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser
Content:
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard focuses on the state of human rights and responses to human rights issues in the United States, drawing on sociological literature and perspectives to interrogate assumptions of American exceptionalism.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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 States.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812222579
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812222579
Language:
English
