Named
OUTSTANDING BOOK on the subject of human rights issues in the U.S., 1995
by the Gustavus Myers Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
Sponsors: B'nai
Brith, Fellowship of Reconciliation, NAACP, National Conference of Christians
and Jews, National Urban League, National Interreligious Commission on
Civil Rights, Project Censored, and Unitarian Universalist Association)
ISBN: 0-932863-19-1,
224 pp., 1995, $14.95
No other right has been so widely
sought by oppressed peoples worldwide as the right to self-determination.
Yet for numerically smaller groups in multinational states, the key to
running their own communities and sustaining their rich cultural identities
while achieving equal status with the majority may lie in minority rights
[special measures and rights additional to civil rights, such as the right
to minority-controlled socio-economic and politico-legal institutions,
and support for same through public processes such as taxation rights,
transfer payments, etc.]. This book helps to clarify the issues of affirmative
action, minority rights, self-determination and reparations so hotly debated
within the American national minority communities today. It will help American
national minorities to fully understand their rights, and the systemic
solutions providing for minority collective empowerment which have provided
for collective self-determination within other states.
"I truly enjoyed the insights in A Popular
Guide to Minority Rights... I learned a good deal from it."Mumia Abu
Jamal
"The contributors do not rehash Afro-centrist
claims. The book is a serious attempt to deal with the resurgence of nationalism
in different parts of the world through the extension of the idea of self-determination,
as it has been developed through the United Nations, international law,
and the various new Human Rights Covenants. They believe that much of this
ethnic identity and nationalist aspiration is a legitimate extension of
self-determination, and should be given political recognition by various
states, not necessarily in terms of secession and independence, but through
a new polity of pluralism. While there is strong resistance intellectually
and politically in the United States to these ideas, in many parts of the
world there have been major concessions to this perspective...... we should
listen seriously to the arguments of this group..." Prof.
George W. Shepherd, University of Denver, in Nationalism & Ethnic
Politics
INCLUDES:
The Proceedings of the historic IHRAAM/Hamline
University Conference on African-Americans and the Right to Self-Determination
which took place in St. Paul in 1993, with the sponsorship of numerous
local and national human rights organizations
IHRAAM Petition to the UN concerning gross violations
of African-American human rights
The most recent recommendations by UN Special
Rapporteurs on state protection of minority rights and on reparations
Excerpts from the Constitutions of other states
indicating minority legal-constitutional empowerment
A Popular Guide to Minority Rights was
published with support from the European Human Rights Foundation, Brussels,
and co-published by Clarity Press, Inc.
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Named
OUTSTANDING BOOK on the subject of human rights issues in the U.S., 1995
by the Gustavus Myers Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
