Human Rights and the American Right

Abstract

Human Rights and the American Right Robi Chakravorti Civil rights issues which dominate the attention of the US media today deal with episodes of unequal treatment of people called "behavioural minorities' or gender discrimination related to 'pursuit of happiness' in certain areas of social life The increasing difficulties of the class and ethnic minorities resulting from the widening gap between the rich and the poor do not cause as much media attention or political excitement.