Human Rights in Our Own BackyardMost Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rightsa 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U. S. adults believed that "the U. S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well, discussions among scholars and public officials in the United States frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies, or practices "over there." By contrast, the contributors to this volume