Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States by Davita Silfen Glasberg, Bandana Purkayastha, William T. Armaline (Paperback, 2013)
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 officials in the United States frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies, or practices over there. By contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that many of the greatest immediate and structural threats to human rights, and some of the most significant efforts to realize human rights in practice, can be found in our own backyard. Human Rights in Our Own Backyard examines the state of human rights and responses to human rights issues, drawing on sociological literature and perspectives to interrogate assumptions of American exceptionalism. How do people in the U.S. address human rights issues? What strategies have they adopted, and how successful have these strategies been? Essays are organized around key conventions of human rights, focusing on the relationships between human rights and justice, the state and the individual, civil rights and human rights, and group rights versus individual rights. The contributors are united by a common conception of the human rights enterprise as a process involving not only state-defined and implemented rights but also human rights from below as promoted by activists.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13
9780812222579
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141468576
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Civil Service
Author
Davita Silfen Glasberg, Bandana Purkayastha, William T. Armaline
Publication Name
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Editor
Bandana Purkayastha, William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg