Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively
embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected
them out of hand. The essays in "Bringing Human Rights Home: A
History of Human Rights in the United States" put these shifting
political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the
country's very beginnings to the present day.The 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.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the
early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth
of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal
inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both
post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation
of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United
States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new
advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil
and political rights and through the lens of particular economic
rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights
have been many, "Bringing Human Rights Home" demonstrates the
strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and
offers hope for its future.
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