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_b.H75 2011
245 0 0 _aHuman rights in the United States :
_bbeyond exceptionalism /
_cedited by Shareen Hertel, Kathryn Libal.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012, c2011.
300 _axxvi, 366 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tForeword: are Americans human?: reflections on the future of progressive politics in the United States /
_rDorothy Q. Thomas --
_g1.
_tParadoxes and possibilities: domestic human rights policy in context /
_rKathryn Libal and Shareen Hertel --
_gSection I.
_tStructuring Debates, Institutionalizing Rights:
_g2.
_tThe yellow sweatshirt: human dignity and economic human rights in advanced industrialized democracies /
_rRhoda E. Howard-Hassmann;
_g3.
_tThe U.S. welfare state: a battleground for human rights /
_rMimi Abramovitz;
_g4.
_tDrawing lines in the sand: building economic and social rights in the United States /
_rCathy Albisa;
_g5.
_tState and local commissions as sites for domestic human rights implementation /
_rRisa E. Kaufman --
_gSection II.
_tChallenging Public/Private Divides:
_g6.
_tThe curious resistance to seeing domestic violence as a human rights violation in the United States /
_rSally Engle Merry and Jessica Shimmin;
_g7. At the crossroads: children's rights and the U.S. government /
_rJonathan Todres;
_g8.
_tEntrenched inequity: healthcare in the United States /
_rJean Connolly Carmalt, Sarah Zaidi, and Alicia Ely Yamin;
_g9.
_tBusiness and human rights: a new approach to advancing environmental justice in the United States /
_rJoanne Bauer --
_gSection III.
_tFrom the Margins to the Center: Making Harms Visible through Human Rights Framing:
_g10.
_tThe law and politics of U.S. participation in the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities /
_rMichael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord;
_g11.
_tThe anomaly of citizenship for indigenous rights /
_rBethany R. Berger;
_g12.
_tHuman rights violations as obstacles to escaping poverty: the case of lone mother-headed families /
_rKen Neubeck;
_g13. T
_the human rights of children in conflict with the law: lessons for the U.S. human rights movement /
_rMie Lewis;
_g14.
_tLGBT rights as human rights in the United States: opportunities lost /
_rJulie Mertus;
_g15.
_tNo shelter: disaster politics in Louisiana and the struggle for human rights /
_rDavida Finger and Rachel E. Luft.
520 _a"This book brings to light emerging evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the United States. The volume offers a rich history, spanning close to three centuries, of the marginalization of human rights discourse in the United States. Contributors analyze particular cases of U.S. human rights advocacy aimed at addressing persistent inequalities within the United States itself, including advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities; indigenous peoples; lone mother-headed families; incarcerated persons; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people; and those displaced by natural disasters, most notably Hurricane Katrina. The book also explores key arenas in which legal scholars, policy practitioners, and grassroots activists are challenging multiple divides between "public" and "private" spheres (for example, in connection with children's rights and domestic violence) and between "public" and "private" sectors (specifically, in relation to healthcare and business and human rights)"--
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aHuman rights.
_2fast
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
700 1 _aHertel, Shareen.
700 1 _aLibal, Kathryn,
_d1968-
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_cBOOK