Human Rights Of, By, and For the People

Keri E. Iyall Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and is author of The State and Indigenous Movements (Routledge). Louis Edgar Esparza is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at California State University at Los Angeles. Judith R. Blau is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, retiring in 2014 after a teaching career that spanned forty-five years.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Constituting Human Rights in the US by Keri E. Iyall Smith

WHAT’S GOING ON?

2. Why Revise by Judith R. Blau

3. Beginning the World Again: Social Movements and the Challenge of Constitutional Change by Ben Manski

4. A Place Called Liberty by Rodney D. Coates

CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS

5. Wherefore "The Despotism of the Petticoat"? American Women, Gender, and Constitutional Omissions by Susan C. Pearce and Kathleen B. Basile

6. Human Dignity and Equality: Freedoms and Rights, Protection, Fairness, and Security by Judith R. Blau

7. Beyond Welfare, Workfare, and Employment: For a Basic Income as a Constitutional Amendment by Steven Panageotou

8. Preserving Economic Security: Housing, Food, and Medical Care by Steven Foy

9. What Latin America and the Caribbean Teach the United States about Constitutionalizing Environmental Human Rights by K. Russell Shekha and Leah Edwards

10. Revise Now! by Judith R. Blau

TOWARDS ACTION

11. Why a Sociology of Human Rights? by Mark Frezzo

12. The Constitution Project: Implementing a Group Projects Structure by Davita Silfen Glasberg

13. For a Decolonized US Constitution – Keri E. Iyall Smith

14. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Constitutional Model by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsberg and James Melton

15. Rewrite for Rights: Creating a Modern Constitution by Judith R. Blau

Appendix 1. Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments

Appendix 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights