From Civil Rights to Human Rights

From Civil Rights to Human Rights

Author: Thomas F. Jackson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780812239690

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From Civil Rights to Human Rights examines King's lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial justice, and international peace. Drawing upon broad research in published sources and unpublished manuscript collections, Jackson positions King within the social movements and momentous debates of his time.


If God Were a Human Rights Activist

If God Were a Human Rights Activist

Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-04-29

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0804795037

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We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better society, and specifically those that have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights arising from religious movements and political theologies that claim the presence of religion in the public sphere. Increasingly globalized, such movements and the theologies sustaining them promote discourses of human dignity that rival, and often contradict, the one underlying secular human rights. Conventional or hegemonic human rights thinking lacks the necessary theoretical and analytical tools to position itself in relation to such movements and theologies; even worse, it does not understand the importance of doing so. It applies the same abstract recipe across the board, hoping that thereby the nature of alternative discourses and ideologies will be reduced to local specificities with no impact on the universal canon of human rights. As this strategy proves increasingly lacking, this book aims to demonstrate that only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can adequately face such challenges.


Reinventing Human Rights

Reinventing Human Rights

Author: Mark Goodale

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 150363101X

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A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.


The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement

The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Susan M. Glisson

Publisher: Human Tradition in America

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780742544086

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This engaging collection of biographies explores the greater civil rights movement in America from Reconstruction to the 1970s while emphasizing the importance of grassroots actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national civil renewal. While focusing on the importance of individuals on the local level working towards civil rights they also explore the influence that this primarily African-American movement had on others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism, and gay rights. By widening the time frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often unrewarded and generational nature of social change.


Civil Rights in America

Civil Rights in America

Author: Christopher W. Schmidt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1108426255

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This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.


Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the 21st Century

Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the 21st Century

Author: Yves Haeck

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9400775997

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This volume contributes to the on-going legal discussion on pressing procedural and substantial law issues in the ambit of international human rights and civil liberties. While the 20th century has seen the true awakening of human rights, the 21st century poses new challenges to this ever-unfolding area of law. Not only do international tribunals and quasi-tribunals worldwide and domestic US and European continental courts have to deal with increasing numbers of complaints and petitions from individuals and groups on a vast array of societal problems, the legal issues put to them are sometimes extremely difficult to resolve as they relate to very sensitive issues. This book examines issues ranging from the status of human rights under US law to the status of the ECHR in the broader context of international law. It looks at the role of positive obligations in the case law of the Strasbourg Court, as well the impact of its case-law on childbirth and push-back operation towards boat people, but also at the growing unwillingness of ECHR member states to cooperate with the Strasbourg Court. It explores the new frontiers in US Capital punishment litigation, the first case before the International Criminal Court and the legal effect of judgments of the European Court on third states.​


Bringing Human Rights Home

Bringing Human Rights Home

Author: Cynthia Soohoo

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 081222079X

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in this volume put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.


Human and Civil Rights

Human and Civil Rights

Author: K. Lee Lerner

Publisher: Gale

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781414403267

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Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to human and civil rights between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.


Eyes Off the Prize

Eyes Off the Prize

Author: Carol Elaine Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-04-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521531580

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This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.


Roma Rights and Civil Rights

Roma Rights and Civil Rights

Author: Felix B. Chang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1107158362

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This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.