Moral Imperialism A Critical Anthology

Name: Moral Imperialism A Critical Anthology
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ISBN: 9780814736142

ISBN-10: 0814736149

ISBN-13: 9780814736142

Edition: 2002

Authors: Berta Esperanza Hernï¿½ndez-Truyol, Berta Esperanza Hernï¿½ndez-Truyol

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The contributors to this anthology set out to bring an international human rights framework to the analysis of current international and US legal, political and cultural crises.

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Berta Esperanza Hernï¿½ndez-Truyolis Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at Levin College of Law, University of Florida. She is editor ofMoral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology(NYU Press).

Berta Esperanza Hernï¿½ndez-Truyol is Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at Levin College of Law, University of Florida. She is editor of Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology (NYU Press).



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Civil and Political Rights



Imperial Humanitarianism: History of an Arrested Dialectic




Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights




Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims




Homophobia/Heterosexism in African Americans: Internalized Racism and African American Lesbians and Bisexual Women




Children and Right to a Fair Trial: Exploring the Relationship between First- and Second-Generation Human Rights




Domestic and International Adoptions: Heroes? Villains? Or Loving Parents? The Race and Nationality Precepts as Explanations for International Adoptions




Social, Cultural, and Economic Rights



Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship




The Recognition of the Individual: A Human Rights Perspective for International Commerce




Rerouting the Race to the Bottom? Transnational Corporations, Labor Practice Codes of Conduct, and Workers' Right to Organize - The Case of Nike, Inc




Both Work and Violence: Prostitution and Human Rights




Policing the Boundaries of Truth in Narratives




Imperial Knowledge: Science, Education, and Equity




U.S. Policy on "Female Genital Mutilation": Threat of Economic Pressure Internationally, Enactment of Criminal Sanctions at Home




Collective and Group Rights



Bridging False Divides: Toward a Transnational Politics of Gender




Membership Denied: An Outsider's Story of Subordination and Subjugation under U.S. Colonialism




The Moral High Ground? The Relevance of International Law to Remedying Racial Discrimination in U.S. Immigration Laws




Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in U.S. Courts




Climate Change, Opinions, and Imagination: Toward a New Ethic of Curiosity




Immigration, Poverty, and Transnationalism: The Changing Terms of Citizenship in a Global Economy




Human Rights, Globalization, and Culture: Centering Personhood in International Narrative



About the Contributors


Index