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The book for the post-Civil Rights struggle

While African Americans have achieved civil rights, it has not ended
their collective oppression in America.  This book is a pathbreaker for
the next stage in the struggle, and key to understanding the special
rights African Americans enjoy under international law.

IHRAAM is the premier UN recognized international NGO doing
substantive work in the United States as it relates to international law
and African Americans' international legal right to self-determination.
On April 20-21, 2012, the IHRAAM-sponsored Conference FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SELF- DETERMINATION? sought to catalyze a turning point in
the African American struggle.

The Civil Rights movement that Martin Luther King assumed, five decades ago, would
be “not long” in bringing “freedom” is now history. Affirmative action has shot its bolt.
While its achievements are evident—Black faces appear in mainstream politics,
academia, corporations and the media—the African American people at large face
ongoing discrimination, mass incarceration and unemployment, prohibitive voting laws,
growing destitution and legalized vigilante terrorism.

The IHRAAM Conference provided a major mechanism to engage leading African
American political thinkers in examining the potential that international human rights
law and norms, and best state practices on internal self- determination might hold for
African American collective development within the United States in the future.

Key representatives from the African American popular leadership and intelligentsia
flew into Chicago from all corners–-California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New York,
South Carolina, Washington, and Virginia—to assess, in this context, where the African
American struggle had been, where it was now, and the direction it had to go to move
forward.

Speakers focused on the key issues of the recognition,maintenance and protection of
African Americans’ collective identity, their need for collective social and economic
development, and the significance of a territorial homeland.

Most importantly, they agreed on the need for a democratically empowered political
body such as a Consultative Assembly to specifically represent and act on behalf of the
unique needs of African Americans. As a historically oppressed people, African
Americans have the right to self-determination under international law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD
Is the African American Struggle Heading in a New
Direction?

Opening Address
Dr. Farid I. Muhammad

Memorial Tribute to Dr. Y. N. Kly
Diana Collier Kly

PANEL ONE: CIVIL RIGHTS: NECESSARY BUT NOT
SUFFICIENT?

Understanding Who You Are
Cynthia McKinney

From Hallowed to Hollowed Victories: Black Civil Rights and the
Post-Racialism Imagination
Dr. Tyson King-Meadows

Dying While Black
Prof. Vernalia Randall

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

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
African Americans’ Right to Self-Determination
Francis A. Boyle

PANEL THREE: COLLECTIVE EMPOWERMENT,
INSTITUTIONS, JURISDICTIONS...

National Survey on African American Self-Determination
Dr. Farid I. Muhammad

Do We Need Self-Determining Institutions?
Atty. Chokwe Lumumba

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

PANEL FOUR: USING THE UN TO ADVANCE AFRICAN
AMERICAN CONCERNS

Using the UN to Pressure America
Atty. Standish Willis

Disya We Land:  Continued Self-Determination of the
Gullah'Geechee Nation
Queen Quet

RECOMMENDED READING
Minority Rights: Some Questions & Answers
Y.N. Kly & Diana Kly
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS' BIOS
Authoritative African American and international legal scholars of stature as well as primary actors
from the African American community who are actively engaged with African American organizations
and institutions.

CONFERENCE  PRESS RELEASE

CONFERENCE PHOTOS

CONFERENCE VIDEO

SUGGESTED PRE-CONFERENCE READING
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

  • Would you be in favor of African-Americans having some degree of
    independent control over  institutions & agencies (e.g. schools, public
    services, etc) that most directly affect their own communities?
                                          
  • Should African-Americans seek to enjoy their collective rights (in addition to
    civil rights)  to address their common problems and needs, as is normative for
    national minorities and peoples under customary international law?


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ISBN: 978-0-9853353-4-2
202 pages   2012
Copublished with CLARITY PRESS, INC.
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