{"product_id":"bringing-human-rights-home-9780812220797","title":"Bringing Human Rights Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout its history, America''s policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in \u003ci\u003eBringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country''s very beginnings to the present day.\u003cbr\u003eThe contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays examine the centrality of human rights in the e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —Cynthia Soohoo, Martha F. Davis, and Catherine Albisa\u003cbr\u003e PART I: A HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part I\u003cbr\u003e —Martha F. Davis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. A Human Rights Lens on U.S. History: Human Rights at Home and Human Rights Abroad\u003cbr\u003e —Paul Gordon Lauren\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. FDR's Four Freedoms and Wartime Transformations in America's Discourse of Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Elizabeth Borgwardt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. A \"Hollow Mockery\": African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States\u003cbr\u003e —Carol Anderson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"New\" Human Rights? U.S. Ambivalence Toward the International Economic and Social Rights Framework\u003cbr\u003e —Hope Lewis\u003cbr\u003e PART II: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part II\u003cbr\u003e —Catherine Albisa\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Against American Supremacy: Rebuilding Human Rights Culture in the United States\u003cbr\u003e —Dorothy Q. Thomas\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Economic and Social Rights in the United States: Six Rights, One Promise\u003cbr\u003e —Catherine Albisa\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Human Rights and the Transformation of the \"Civil Rights\" and \"Civil Liberties\" Lawyer\u003cbr\u003e —Cynthia Soohoo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"Going Global\": Appeals to International and Regional Human Rights Bodies\u003cbr\u003e —Margaret Huang\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: States, Municipalities, and International Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Martha F. Davis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Impact of September 11 and the Struggle Against Terrorism on the U.S. Domestic Human Rights Movement\u003cbr\u003e —Wendy Patten\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Bush Administration Noncompliance with the Prohibition on Torture and Cruel and Degrading Treatment\u003cbr\u003e —Kathryn Sikkink\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Trade Unions and Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Lance Compa\u003cbr\u003e About the Editors and Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405697458519,"sku":"9780812220797","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812220797.jpg?v=1730493316","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bringing-human-rights-home-9780812220797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}