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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cynthia Soohoo; Catherine Albisa; Martha F Davis |
| ISBN: | 9780275988210 027598821X 9780275988227 0275988228 9780275988234 0275988236 9780275988241 0275988244 |
| OCLC Number: | 174040165 |
| Description: | 3 v. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. A history of human rights in the United States -- v. 2. From civil rights to human rights -- v. 3. Portraits of the movement. |
| Series Title: | Praeger perspectives |
| Responsibility: | edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis ; foreword by Louise Arbour. |
Table of Contents:
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Vol. 1 : A human rights lens on U.S. history : human rights at home and human rights abroad / Paul Gordon Lauren -- FDR's four freedoms and wartime transformations in America's discourse of rights / Elizabeth Borgwardt -- Louis Henkin and human rights : a New Deal at home and abroad / Catherine Powell -- A "hollow mockery" : African Americans, white supremacy, and the development of human rights in the United States / Carol Anderson -- "New" human rights : U.S. ambivalence toward the international economic and social rights framework / Hope Lewis -- Blazing a path from civil rights to human rights : the pioneering career of Gay McDougall / Vanita Gupta. Vol. 2 : Against American supremacy : rebuilding human rights culture in the United States / Dorothy Q. Thomas -- Economic and social rights in the United States : six rights, one promise / Catherine Albisa -- First-person perspectives on the growth of the movement : Ajamu Baraka, Larry Cox, Loretta Ross, and Lisa Crooms / Catherine Albisa -- Human rights and the transformation of the "civil rights" and "civil liberties" lawyer / Cynthia Soohoo -- "Going global" : appeals to international and regional human rights bodies / Margaret Huang -- Thinking globally, acting locally : states, municipalities, and international human rights / Martha F. Davis -- The impact of September 11 and the struggle against terrorism on the U.S. domestic human rights movement / Wendy Patten -- Bush administration noncompliance with the prohibition on torture and cruel and degrading treatment / Kathryn Sikkink -- Trade unions and human rights / Lance Compa. Vol. 3 : Coalition of Immokalee workers : !Golpear a uno es golpear a todos!" To beat one of us is to beat us all! / Greg Asbed -- From sanctuary to shaping international law : how unauthorized immigrant workers in America are advocating beyond U.S. borders / Beth Lyon -- Securing human rights of American Indians and other indigenous peoples under international law / Steven M. Tullberg -- Human rights advocacy in United States capital cases / Sandra Babcock -- Ensuring rights for all : realizing human rights for prisoners / Deborah LaBelle -- Housing rights and wrongs : the United States and the right to housing / Maria Foscarinis and Eric Tars -- Fixing the U.S. healthcare system : What role for human rights? / Alec Irwin, Leonard Rubenstein, Anne Cooper, and Paul Farmer -- Strategic uses of a human rights framework to guarantee reproductive health and rights in the states : two case studies / Theresa McGovern -- The right to social security in the United States : ending welfare as we know it / Wendy Pollack -- Acting on principle : opportunities and strategies for achieving environmental justice through human rights laws and standards / Monique Harden, Nathalie Walker, and Vernice Miller-Travis -- A call for the right to return in the Gulf Coast / William Quigley and Sharda Sekaran.
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