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 "Culture 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
