Is the U.S. Constitution, in relation to its national minorities, a true social contract, or did it mark the consolidation of an unwritten, unspoken anti-social contract that even to this day submerges the rights of American national minorities to historic, cultural and socio-economic recognition as founding peoples of the United States of America? Dr. Kly views the African-American minority problem within the context of an historically evolved American problematic of white nationalism, which is used to subject American minorities to what may be called domestic colonialism. This places the American minority problem within the context of the on-going dissolution of colonial empires, and the exercise by emergent nations of the right to self determination.

ANTI SOCIAL CONTRACT

Kly, Dr. Y. N.

Arts & Photography

Clarity Press

Perhaps no other right has been so highly valued and widely sought by oppressed peoples worldwide as the right to self-determination. Yet for numerically smaller groups within multinational states, the key to achieving and sustaining equal status may lie in the possibilities afforded for collective empowerment by minority rights in addition to civil rights. Addressing this universal problematic with particular reference to the situation of American national minorities, Avlam Solfer (Dean, Boston College Law School) questions the viability of non-discrimination policies as interpreted by U.S. courts: Ronald Walters (Dept. of Political Science, Howard University) traces the rise of white nationalism as a response to perceived threat to majority dominance posed by post-1960s affirmative action; and Y. N. Kly (Associate Professor, International Law, University of Regina) addresses the problem of democratic expression and realization of minority needs in the majoritarian state.

A Popular Guide to Minority Rights

As advancing technology, environmental degradation and competitive globalization impress upon humanity the need for sustainable human-centered development, the way in which majority/minority relations are institutionalized within multinational states may be key to their societal development as a whole. In this lucid and compelling overview, international legal scholar Y. N. Kly examines the urgent international dialogue now taking place on how best to institutionalize the co-existence of dominant and nondominant ethnic groups within the same multinational state.

SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT & MINORITY RIGHTS

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

This book seeks to promote a realisticpolitical dialogue between theAmerican national minorities andthe dominant Anglo-Americanmajority. In what American presidents Clinton and Obama have repeatedly called a "one-nation one-state" political system, how will thestate address the unique needs and interests of its historically oppressed national minorities, particularly African Americans? All black officials in the United States government are in the same position asthe president; they are all required to represent first of all the majority's interests. For a national minority to be able to fully address its special needs (when it can find no specific representation in the majority-dominated platform of either political party or the policy agenda of government), it must seek to enjoy not only civil rights, but the full range of human rights, particularly the right to self-determination, to whatever extent may be desired or needed.Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz understood that the African Americans were still in the grip of American domestic colonialism. He feared that the majorityethny would prefer to pursue forced assimilation, possibly leadingto the extinguishing of African Americans' collective identity (ethnocide), rather than to negotiate an equal-status integration of the African American national minority. As the presidency of Barack Obama is demonstrating, electing a Black president who is required to address the state's interest as a whole is not the answer for improving the well being of African Americans.

The Black Book II: From Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz to Barack Obama

Politics & Government

Clarity Press, Inc.

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ANTI SOCIAL CONTRACT

A Popular Guide to Minority Rights

SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT & MINORITY RIGHTS

The Black Book II: From Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz to Barack Obama