We the People? - The United States and the Question of Rights

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Irina Brittner (Editor), Sabine N. Meyer (Editor), Sabin N Meyer (Editor), Peter Schneck (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2020
• EAN: 9783825347628
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-4762-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 24 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 484 g
• Illustrations: 24 Abbildungen
• Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Menschenrechte, Englisch, Rechtsgeschichte, Amerikanische Literatur, Gleichheit, James, Henry, Photographie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politik, Gesellschaft, USA, Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Big Data, Flüchtlinge, Soziale und ethische Themen, Sklaverei, Bürgerrechte, Aktivismus, Rassentrennung, Ebola, TV-Serien, Protestbewegungen, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Afroamerikaner, Recht: Menschenrechte und Bürgerrechte, U.S.A., Minderheiten, Jim Crow Laws, Lateinamerikaner, U.S. Supreme Court, nationale Sicherheit, Ángel N., José