From civil rights to human rights and self-determination
Subtitle: proceedings of the IHRAAM Chicago conference, 2012
Contributors: International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780985335342; 9780985335359
Subjects: African Americans; Congresses; Legal status, laws
Description: The IHRAAM Chicago Conference (International Human Rights Association of American Minorities) is a major mechanism for exposing leading African American opinion makers to the potential that international legal paradigms of internal self-determination might hold for African American collective development within the United States--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Is the African American struggle heading in a new direction?; title: Opening address / Dr. Farid I. Muhammad; title: Memorial tribute to Dr. Y.N. Kly / Diana Collier Kly; title: PANEL ONE: Civil Rights: Necessary but Not Sufficient? Understanding who you are / Cynthia McKinney ; Dying while black / Prof. Vernalia Randall ; From hallowed to hollowed victories: black civil rights and the port-racial imagination / Dr. Tyson King-Meadows; title: PANEL TWO: Internal Self-Determination for Historically Oppressed Peoples. External self-determination and internal self-determination in Quebec, Canada / Prof. Daniel Turp ; Seeking sovereignty: the need for an identifiable place / Dr. Ava Muhammad ; Using international human rights to protect indigeneity / Prof. Carla Pratt; title: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: African Americans' right to self-determination / Francis A. Boyle.; title: PANEL THREE: Collective Empowerment, Institutions, Jurisdictions ... Nation survey on African American self-determination / Dr. Farid I. Muhammad ; Do we need self-determining institutions: / Atty. Chokwe Lumamba ; The land is the key / Dr. John Boyd ; Policy drives African American conditions / Henry L. English ; Economics of self-determination: the Afrikan descendant nation in America / Kamm Howard; title: PANEL FOUR: Using the UN to Advance African American Concerns. Using the UN to put pressure on America / Atty. Standish Willis ; Disya we land: continued self-determination of the Gullah/Geechee Nation / Queen Quet; title: Recommended Reading. Minority rights: some questions & answers / Y.N. Kly & Diana Kly.; title: PANEL THREE: Collective Empowerment, Institutions, Jurisdictions ... Nation survey on African American self-determination / Dr. Farid I. Muhammad ; Do we need self-determining institutions: / Atty. Chokwe Lumamba ; The land is the key / Dr. John Boyd ; Policy drives African American conditions / Henry L. English ; Economics of self-determination: the Afrikan descendant nation in America / Kamm Howard; title: PANEL FOUR: Using the UN to Advance African American Concerns. Using the UN to put pressure on America / Atty. Standish Willis ; Disya we land: continued self-determination of the Gullah/Geechee Nation / Queen Quet; title: Recommended Reading. Minority rights: some questions & answers / Y.N. Kly & Diana Kly.