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Author Brittner, Irina

Title We the People? The United States and the Question of Rights
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (334 p.)
Series American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v.309
American Studies - A Monograph Series
Contents Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- IRINA BRITTNER, SABINE N. MEYER, AND PETER SCHNECK: Introduction -- The Social and Historical Reality of Rights in the U.S. -- LETI VOLPP: Refugees Welcome? -- BLAIR L.M. KELLEY: Unabated Protest: American Citizenship and African American Resistance to Jim Crow Segregation -- SUSAN N. HERMAN: On Balancing Liberty and National Security -- MICHAEL DREYER: Civil Rights from the Bench? The U.S. Supreme Court between Originalism and the Living Constitution
CURD BENJAMIN KNÜPFER: Technological Innovation and Bottom-Up Democracy: Acknowledging the Crises and Re-Affirming the Research Agenda -- Literature and the Question of Rights -- CHAD LUCK: Debt Reckoning: Equity, Property, Bartleby -- KATRIN HORN: Right or Obligation? Privacy in Henry James' 'The Bostonians' -- JULIUS GREVE: Ventriloquism Against the Copyright of the Concept: Authorial Suspension and Modernist Perfomativity -- SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN: Law as Algorithm: Legal Discourse, the Data Imaginary and the 1839 'American Slavery as It Is'
INA BATZKE: Contesting Traditional Imaginaries of Citizenship: José Ángel N.'s 'Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant' -- KERSTIN KNOPF: The Gendered Prison: Female Bodies and the Carceral Space in American Women's Prison Literature -- Negotiating Rights in Popular Culture -- KATJA KANZLER: Female Lawyer Figures in Contemporary TV Legal Drama: Embodiment and Gender in Figurations of the Legal Process -- JOSEF RAAB: The Disenfranchised Latin@ Alien in 'The X-Files' and Beyond -- INGRID GESSNER: Picturing Ebola: Photography as an Instrument of Biopolitical (In)Justice
MIRJA BEUTEL: 'The Sopranos' and Minority Rights: A Cosmopolitan Approach for the EFL Classroom -- Contributors -- Backcover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Human rights -- United States
Civil rights -- United States.
Human rights in literature.
Human rights in mass media.
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Civil rights
Human rights
Human rights in literature
Human rights in mass media
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Meyer, Sabine N
Schneck, Peter
ISBN 3825379884
9783825379889