Michael A. Elliott's research while affiliated with Emory University and other places
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Publications (6)
Diversity and multiculturalism are widely embraced principles, championed by many social movements and promoted through the programs and policies of states, businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the world. Purportedly celebrating and protecting group differences, these principles translate concretely into differences that operate a...
Despite ongoing attention to the subject, cultural accounts of the globalization of human rights are surprisingly scarce. Most accounts describe this phenomenon either as a function of evolutionary progress or the rational/strategic action of states and social movement organizations. As a result, they have difficulty explaining both the moral impul...
My knowledge of my mother is very scanty, but very distinct. Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory. She was tall, and finely proportioned; of deep black, glossy complexion; had regular features, and, among the other slaves, was remarkably sedate in her manners. There is in Prichard’s Natural History of Man, the...
“Telling the Difference” focuses on two legal opinions from the nineteenth century that carefully distinguish between those who should be racially marked as nonwhite and those who should not. In the first instance, a Michigan judge decides the appropriate “blood fraction” of African-American heritage that would prohibit a free man from voting. In t...
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... 41 The highly individualistic focus of ordinary human rights discourse was captured in Elliot's contention that the increasing global adoption and acceptance of human rights is 'the triumph of the individual'. To this end, Elliot asserted that, 'the normative content of human rights standards points to a global environment where the individual is widely regarded as fundamentally sacred and inviolable, and therefore the locus of rights that must be guaranteed by legitimate global actors.' 42 However, against this understanding of individual entitlement, the inherently collective goals of public health initially seem incompatible with the rubric of individual human rights. Indeed, for much of history, public health efforts have been pitted as infringing, limiting or disregarding an individual human rights in furtherance of this collectivist notion of 'public health'. ...
... Beyond social psychology, scholars in sociology, urban studies, and other disciplines have critically engaged with the impact that the diversity turn (Vertovec, 2012) in scientific and institutional discourse has had on how categorical differences and inequalities are represented in various social contexts (e.g., Boli & Elliott, 2008;Brubaker, 2015;Cooper, 2004;Doytcheva, 2020;Edelman et al., 2001;Mayorga-Gallo, 2019). The main issue in this critique concerns the breadth of diversity. ...
... The one drop rule meant that anyone with a recent black ancestor was considered to be black. Different formulae for different calculations of racial belonging in other groups could also be constructed, but the function of these was to ascribe race by inheritance (Elliott 1999). In South African history, consistently through colonialism and Apartheid, there were definitions of race which incor-porated explicitly social and cultural factors in determining what race a person was to belong to despite the fact that race was seen to be an ostensibly inherited characteristic (see Posel 2001 for discussion). ...
