Human Rights in Our Own Backyard

Abstract

Foreword -Judith Blau 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 -Julie Elkins and Shareen Hertel Chapter 2. Labor Rights After the Flexible Turn: The Rise of Contingent Employment and the Implications for Worker Rights in the United States -Andrew S. Fullerton and Dwanna L. Robertson Chapter 3. Preying on the American Dream: Predatory Lending, Institutionalized Racism, and Resistance to Economic Injustice -Davita Silfen Glasberg, Angie Beeman, and Colleen Casey PART II. SOCIAL RIGHTS Chapter 4. Food Not Bombs: The Right to Eat -Deric Shannon Chapter 5. The Long Road to Economic and Social Justice -Amanda Ploch Chapter 6. Hurricane Katrina and the Right to Food and Shelter -Barret Katuna Chapter 7. Education, Human Rights, and the State: Toward New Visions -Abraham P. DeLeon Chapter 8. Health and Human Rights -Kathryn Strother Ratcliff PART III. CULTURAL RIGHTS Chapter 9. We Are a People in the World: Native Americans and Human Rights -Barbara Gurr Chapter 10. Reflections on Cultural Human Rights -MihoIwata and Bandana Purkayastha 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 -Christine Zozula Chapter 12. U.S. Asylum and Refugee Policy: The of No -Bill Frelick Chapter 13. The Border Action Network and Human Rights: Community-Based Resistance Against the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border -Sang Hea Kil, Jennifer Allen, and Zoe Hammer Chapter 14. Sexual Citizenship: Marriage, Adoption, and Immigration in the United States -Katie Acosta Chapter 15. Do Human Rights Endure Across Nation-State Boundaries? Analyzing the Experiences of Guest Workers -Shweta Majumdar Adur 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 -Bandana Purkayastha, Aheli Purkayastha, and Chandra Waring Chapter 17. Caging Kids of Color: Juvenile Justice and Human Rights in the United States -William T. Armaline 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 -Tola Olu Pearce Chapter 19. Sex Trafficking: In Our Backyard? -Ranita Ray Chapter 20. The U.S. Culture of Violence -Stacy A. Missari 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 -Chivy Sok and Kenneth J. Neubeck Chapter 22. Critical Resistance and the Prison Abolitionist Movement -Zoe Hammer Chapter 23. Human Rights in the United States: The Gold Standard and the Human Rights Enterprise -William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha Notes References List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments