Bringing human rights home : a history of human rights in the United States

Author(s)

edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis

（Pennsylvania studies in human rights）

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, c2007

Abridged ed

Includes bibliographical references and index

First published 2007 by Praeger Press, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Preface / Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis
Part I. A History of Human Rights in the United States
1. A human rights lens on U.S. history : human rights at home and human rights abroad / Paul Gordon Lauren
2. FDR's four freedoms and wartime transformations in America's discourse of rights / Elizabeth Borgwardt
3. A "hollow mockery" : African Americans, white supremacy, and the development of human rights in the United States / Carol Anderson
4. "New" human rights? : U.S. ambivalence toward the international economic and social rights framework / Hope Lewis
Part II. From Civil Rights to Human Rights
5. Against American supremacy : rebuilding human rights culture in the United States / Dorothy Q. Thomas
6. Economic and social rights in the United States : six rights, one promise / Catherine Albisa
7. Human rights and the transformation of the "civil rights" and "civil liberties" lawyer / Cynthia Soohoo
8. "Going global" : appeals to international and regional human rights bodies / Margaret Huang
9. Thinking globally, acting locally : states, municipalities, and international human rights / Martha F. Davis
10. The impact of September 11 and the struggle against terrorism on the U.S. domestic human rights movement / Wendy Patten
11. Bush administration noncompliance with the prohibition on torture and cruel and degrading treatment / Kathryn Sikkink
12. Trade unions and human rights / Lance Compa