Human Rights In The United States: Beyond Exceptionalism

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Title Full......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Foreword: Are Americans Human? Reflections on the Future of Progressive Politics in the United States......Page 20
1 - Paradoxes and Possibilities: Domestic Human Rights Policy in Context......Page 28
SECTION I - STRUCTURING DEBATES, INSTITUTIONALIZING RIGHTS......Page 50
2 - The Yellow Sweatshirt: Human Dignity and Economic Human Rights in Advanced Industrial Democracies......Page 52
3 - The U.S. Welfare State: A Battleground for Human Rights......Page 73
4 - Drawing Lines in the Sand: Building Economic and Social Rights Norms in the United States......Page 95
5 - State and Local Commissions as Sites for Domestic Human Rights Implementation......Page 116
SECTION II - CHALLENGING PUBLIC/PRIVATE DIVIDES......Page 138
6 - The Curious Resistance to Seeing Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation in the United States......Page 140
7 - At the Crossroads: Children\'s Rights and the U.S. Government......Page 159
8 - Entrenched Inequity: Health Care in the United States......Page 180
9 - Business and Human Rights: A New Approach to Advancing Environmental Justice in the United States......Page 202
SECTION III - FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTER: MAKING HARMS VISIBLE THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMING......Page 224
10 - The Law and Politics of U.S. Participation in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities......Page 226
11 - The Anomaly of Citizenship for Indigenous Rights......Page 244
12 - Human Rights Violations as Obstacles to Escaping Poverty: The Case of Lone-Mother-Headed Families......Page 261
13 - The Human Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law: Lessons for the U.S. Human Rights Movement......Page 282
14 - LGBT Rights as Human Rights in the United States: Opportunities Lost......Page 301
15 - No Shelter: Disaster Politics in Louisiana and the Struggle for Human Rights......Page 318
APPENDIX 1 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights......Page 340
APPENDIX 2 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights......Page 347
APPENDIX 3 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights......Page 359
Index......Page 382