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Human Rights in Our Own Backyard - Injustice and Resistance in the United States (Hardcover)
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Human Rights in Our Own Backyard - Injustice and Resistance in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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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.
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