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Moral Imperialism

A Critical Anthology
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In the controversy over female genital mutilation, Congress was quick to condemn practices throughout Africa and the Middle East and to take action criminalizing the practice domestically. Yet at the same time, it bluntly dismissed Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch when they pointed out human rights violations closer to home in the form of the disproportionately high rate of the imposition of capital punishment on black men, and the disempowerment of poor women under new draconian welfare rules. The irony of the United States' international condemnation of types of activities in which it engages within its own borders is not lost on Third World critics. Moral Imperialism sets out to bring an international human rights framework to the analysis of current international and domestic legal, political, and cultural crises. It explores the United States' moral supremacy during a time of clear domestic shortcomings and asks whether insisting that other nations adhere to norms that derive from dominant U.S. culture and history may harm societies--both within and outside of the U.S.--with radically different cultures and histories. Contributors include Beverly Greene, Kevin Johnson, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, Holly Maguigan, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Saskia Sassen, and Eric Yamamoto.
I Civil and Political Rights 1 Imperial Humanitarianism 2 Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights 3 Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims 4 Homophobia/Heterosexism in African Americans 5 Children and Right to a Fair Trial 6 Domestic and International Adoptions II Social, Cultural, and Economic Rights 7 Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship 8 The Recognition of the Individual 9 Rerouting the Race to the Bottom? 10 Both Work and Violence 11 Policing the Boundaries of Truth in Narratives 12 Imperial Knowledge 13 U.S. Policy on "Female Genital Mutilation" 14 Bridging False Divides 15 Membership Denied 16 The Moral High Ground? 17 Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in U.S. Courts 18 Climate Change, Opinions, and Imagination 19 Immigration, Poverty, and Transnationalism 20 Human Rights, Globalization, and Culture
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