Americans & Human Rights: A Reading List

Amnesty International. Human Rights for Human Dignity: A Primer on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (NY: AI, 2005).

__________. Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the U.S. Justice System (NY: AI, 1998). ILL

Anderson, Carol. African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (NY: Cambridge, 2003).

Andreopoulos, George J. & Richard Pierre Claude (eds.) Human Rights Education for the 21st C. (Philadelphia, U. of Pennsylvania, 1997).

Batstone, David & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.) The Good Citizen (NY: Routledge, 1999).

Blau, Judith & Alberto Moncada. Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

__________. Justice in the U.S.: Human Rights & the U.S. Constitution (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). ILL

Bragg, Carol. “Martin Luther King’s world house vision: true security for everyone everywhere,” Fellowship (nov-dec 2004), pp. 4-6.

Brighouse, Harry. "What Rights (If Any) Do Children Have?" in David Archard & Colin M. MacLeod (eds.) The Moral & Political Status of Children (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 31-52.

Barton, Stephen E. Property Rights & Human Rights: Efficiency & Democracy as Criteria for Regulatory Reform (Berkeley: UC Institute of Urban & Regional Development, 1988).

Bonefeld, Werner. & Kosmas Psychopedis (eds.) Human Dignity: Social Autonomy & the Critique of Capitalism (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005).

Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2005).

Brysk, Alison Human Rights & Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society (NY: Routledge, 2005).

__________ & Gerson Shafir (eds.) People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, & the Citizenship Gap (NY: Routledge, 2004).

Bunch, Charlotte. “Women’s rights as human rights: a re-vision of human rights,” Human Rights Quarterly 12,4 (1990):486-498.

Burgers, Jan Herman. “The road to San Francisco: the revival of the human rights idea in the 20th century,” Human Rights Quarterly 14 (1992):447-77.

Burrow, Rufus. God & Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, & Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Notre Dame IN: U. of Notre Dame, 2006).

Carter, Jimmy. Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Childs, John Brown. Trans-Communality: From the Politics of Conversion to the Ethics of Respect (Philadelphia: Temple, 2003).

Chomsky, Noam. The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights & the Contradictions of U.S. Policy (NY: Seven Stories, 1999).

Cook, Blanche Wiesen. “Eleanor Roosevelt & human rights: the battle for peace & planetary decency,” in Edward Crapol (ed.) Women & American Foreign Policy: Lobbyists, Critics & Insiders (NY: Greenwood, 1987), pp. 91-118.

Davis, Martha. “International human rights & U.S. law: prediction of a court watcher,” Albany Law Review 64,2 (2000):417-36.

Drinan, Robert F., S.J. The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights (New Haven: Yale, 2001).

Duemler, David. “The right to be heard: creating a social movement for the 21st century,” Social Policy 31,2 (win 2000):45-51.

Farber, Daniel A. Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment & the Constitutional Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have (NY: Basic Books, 2007).

Felice, William F. Taking Rights Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights (Albany NY: SUNY, 1996).

__________. The Global New Deal: Economic & Social Human Rights in World Politics (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

Forsythe, David P. (ed.) The U.S. & Human Rights: Looking Inward & Outward (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 2000).

Ginger, Ann Fagan (ed.) Challenging U.S Human Rights Violations since 9/11 (Amherst NY: Prometheus Books, 2005).

__________ (ed.) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the Law: A Guide to UDHR Articles in Treaties Ratified by the U.S. (Berkeley: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 2008).

Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt & the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (NY: Random House, 2001).

Good, Martha H. “Freedom from want: the failure of U.S. courts to protect subsistence rights,” Human Rights Quarterly 6,3 (8/84):335-65.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Rosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994).

Green, James. Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts, 2000).

Green, Mark (ed.) What We Stand For: A Program for Progressive Patriotism (NY: Newmarket, 2004).

Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice & Beauty to the World (NY: Penguin, 2007).
Hoopes, Townsend & Douglas Brinkley. FDR & the Creation of the UN (New Haven: Yale, 1997).

Human Rights Watch. U.S.: Uniform Discrimination: The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy of the U.S. Military (NY: HRW, 2003).

Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics & Idolatry (Princeton NJ: Princeton, 2001).

__________ The Rights Revolution (Toronto: Anansi, 2007).

Ishay, Micheline R. (ed.) The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Writings, Essays, Speeches, & Documents from the Bible to the Present (NY: Routledge, 1997).

__________. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (Berkeley: U. of California, 2004).

Jenkins, Alan & Larry Cox. “Bringing human rights home,” Nation (6/27/05):27-29.

Johnson, M. Glen. “The contributions of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt to the development of international protection for human rights,” Human Rights Quarterly 9 (1987):19-48.

Kaufman, Natalie Hevener & David Whiteman. “Opposition to human rights treaties in the United States Senate: the legacy of the Bricker Amendment,” Human Rights Quarterly 10 (1988):309-37.

Korey, William. NGOs & the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “A Curious Grapevine” (NY: St. Martin’s, 1998).

*Lappé, Frances Moore. Rediscovering America’s Values (NY: Ballantine, 1989).
__________ & Paul Martin Du Bois. The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994).
__________ with Rachel Burton, Anna Lappé & Hope Richardson. Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006).

Lauren, Paul. “First principles of racial equality: the history & politics & diplomacy of human rights provisions in the UN Charter,” Human Rights Quarterly 5,1 [?] (1983).

Lightfoot, Claude M. Human Rights U.S. Style: From Colonial Times through the New Deal (NY: International Publishers, 1997).

Lyons, David. “Human rights & the general welfare,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 6,2 (1977):113-29.

McCoy, Alfred W. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror (NY: Henry Holt, 2006).

Mertus, Julie A. Bait & Switch: Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy (NY: Routledge, 2004).

Meyer, Michael J. & William A. Parent (eds.) The Constitution of Rights: Human Dignity & American Values (Ithaca NY: Cornell, 1992).

Mittal, Anhurada & Peter Rosset. America Needs Human Rights (Oakland CA: Food First, 1999).

Nickel, James W. “How human rights generate duties to protect & provide,” Human Rights Quarterly 15 (1993):77-86.

Normand, Roger & Sarah Zaidi. Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).

Powell, Catherine. “Dialogic federalism: constitutional possibilities for incorporation of human rights law in the U.S.,” Pennsylvania Law Review 245 (ll/o1).

Power, Samantha & Graham Allison (eds.) Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (NY: St. Martin’s, 2000).

Press, Eyal. “Human rights – the next step,” Nation (12/25/00):13-18.

Reichert, Elisabeth. Social Work & Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy & Practice (NY: Columbia, 2003).

Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember (NY: Harper, 1949).

__________. “Making human rights come alive,” in Allida Black (ed.) What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt (Brooklyn NY: Carlson, 1995).

Soohoo, Cynthia; Catherine Albisa & Martha F. Davis (eds.) Bringing Human Rights Home (3 vols.; Westport CT: Praeger, 2008).

Stetson, Brad. Human Dignity & Contemporary Liberalism (Westport CT: Praeger, 1988).

Stone, Adam. “Human rights education & public policy in the U.S.: mapping the road ahead,” Human Rights Quarterly 24 (2002).

Sunstein, Cass. The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution & Why We Need It More Than Ever (NY: Basic Books, 2004).

Swidler, Leonard (ed.) Religious Liberty & Human Rights (NY: Hippocrene, 1986).

Thomas, Dorothy Q. & Michele E. Beasley. “Domestic violence as a human rights issue,” Human Rights Quarterly 15 (1993):36-62.

__________. “Advancing rights protection in the U.S.: an internationalized advocacy strategy,” Harvard Human Rights Journal 9 (1996):15-26.

__________. “We are not the world: U.S. activism & human rights in the 21st c.,” Signs 25,4 (2000):1121-24.

Walz, Susan. “Reclaiming & rebuilding the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Third World Quarterly 23,3 (2002).

Wronka, Joseph. Human Rights & Social Justice: Social Action & Service for the Helping & Health Professions (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 2008).

Yes! Magazine 41 (spr 2007), special issue: “Is the U.S. ready for human rights?”