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This edited collection contains a series of strong essays on various aspects of human rights in the US. Covering economic rights, social rights, cultural rights, and civil and political rights, each chapter takes a social issue and reframes it in a human rights context. Thus, the incarceration of minority youth, the Patriot Act, Native American land claims, labor issues, and more all are examined in terms of human rights. The resulting book makes a strong and vital case for considering these issues as human rights violations. The book is well structured and quite tight for an edited collection. Contributors often refer to other chapters in the book, an effect that creates a more unified whole than one might expect in an edited volume. The variety of authors--academics, community organizers, graduate students, human rights advocates--makes for interesting, and at times quite compelling, reading, and the immediacy of many of the topics (unemployment, food security, housing foreclosures) makes for timely, important contemporary reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. J. B. Edwards University of Montana
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