We the People?
The United States and the Question of Rights
1. Auflage, 2020
312 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7988-9
Sortiment: E-Book
Ausgabe: PDF
Fachgebiet: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Reihe: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Band: 309
lieferbar: 24.09.2020
Schlagwörter:
Menschenrechte, U.S.A., Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Gesellschaft, Politik, Flüchtlinge, Afroamerikaner, Aktivismus, Protestbewegungen, nationale Sicherheit, Bürgerrechte, Gleichheit, amerikanische Literatur, TV-Serien, Lateinamerikaner, Photographie, Minderheiten, Big Data, 19. Jahrhundert, 20. Jahrhundert, Rechtsgeschichte, Ángel N., José, Ebola, James, Henry, Rassentrennung, Jim Crow Laws, U.S. Supreme Court, Sklaverei, 18. Jahrhundert, 21. Jahrhundert
The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” (Abraham Lincoln) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet often also conflicting, narratives and discourses through which the question of human and civil rights in the U.S. has been constantly debated and re-negotiated.
This volume investigates the U.S.-American culture of rights as it has evolved and continues to evolve throughout U.S. (legal) history as well as in U.S. literature and in popular culture. It demonstrates that the question of rights has been posed differently by members of the various groups and cultures that have historically constituted the United States, and that the answers to these questions changed significantly over time.
Beitr. v.: Irina Brittner, Sabine N. Meyer, Peter Schneck, Leti Volpp, Blair L. M. Kelley, Susan Herman, Michael Dreyer, Curd Benjamin Knüpfer, Chad Luck, Katrin Horn, Julius Greve, Sebastian Herrmann, Ina Batzke, Kerstin Knopf, Katja Kanzler, Josef Raab, Ingrid Gessner, Mirja Beutel
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