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Title:

Moral imperialism : a critical anthology / edited by Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human rights--History.
Human rights.--Cross-cultural studies.
Imperialism--History.

Other Authors:

Hernández-Truyol, Berta Esperanza.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Human rights, globalization, and culture: centering personhood in international narrative / Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol. III. Collective and group rights -- Imperial humanitarianism: history of an arrested dialectic / Gil Gott -- Toward a multicultural conception of human rights / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Orientalism revisited in asylum and refugee claims / Susan Musarrat Akram -- Homophobia/heterosexism in African Americans: internalized racism and African American lesbians and bisexual women / Beverly A. Greene -- Children and right to a fair trial: exploring the relationship between first- and second-generation human rights / Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen -- Domestic and international adoptions: heroes? villians? Or loving parents? The race and nationality precepts as explanations for international adoptions / Sharon Elizabeth Rush -- II. Social, cultural, and economic rights -- Economic globalization and the redrawing of citizenship / Saskia Sassen -- Recognition of the individual: a human rights perspective for international commerce / Claire Moore Dickerson -- Rerouting the race to the bottom? Transnational corporations, labor practice codes of conduct, and worker's right to organize - the case of Nike, Inc. / Tim O'Connor -- Both work and violence: prostitution and human rights / Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Jane E. Larson -- Policing the boundaries of truth in narratives / Elizabeth Fakazis -- Imperial knowledge: science, education, and equity / Kathryn Scantlebury, Elizabeth McKinley, and Joce Jesson -- U.S. policy on "female genital mutilation": threat of economic pressure internationally, enactment of criminal sanctions at home / Holly Maguigan -- III. Collective and group rights -- Bridging false divides: toward a transnational politics of gender / R.W. Perry, L. Amede Obiora -- Membership denied: an outsider's story of subordination and subjugation under U.S. colonialism / Ediberto Román -- Moral high ground? The relevance of international law to remedying racial discrimination in U.S. immigration laws / Kevin R. Johnson -- Indigenous peoples' human rights in U.S. courts / Eric K. Yamamoto, Carrie Ann Y. Shirota, Jayna Kanani Kim -- Climate change, opinions, and imagination: toward a new ethic of curiosity / Mary Loring Lyndon -- Immigration, poverty, and transnationalism: the changing terms of citizenship in a global economy / M. Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- Human rights, globalization, and culture: centering personhood in international narrative / Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol.

Series:

Critical America series

ISBN:

9780814736142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814736149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814736135 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814736130 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49699056

LCCN:

2002006498

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)