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Human rights in the Americas
Title
Human rights in the Americas / edited by María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Luz Angélica Kirschner.
ISBN
9780367636913
0367636913
9781003120315
9781000359732
9781000359657
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
xix, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Summary
"This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Human rights in the Americas Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2021
Series
Inter-American research.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : human rights in the Americas / Luz Angélica Kirschner, María Herrera-Sobek, and Francisco A. Lomelí
Human rights in the Americas : a stony path / Josef Raab
Constructing rights and empires in the early Americas : the parallel reception histories of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Cotton Mather / Philipp Reisner
Maps of violence, maps of resistance, or, Where is home in the Americas? / Roland Walter
The human rights situation in Central America through the lens of literary representation and violence / Xaver Daniel Hergenröther
Rebellion, repression, reform : U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic / Breanne Robertson
Black women writers in the Americas : the struggle for human rights in the context of coloniality / Isabel Caldeira
Autobiography, fiction, and racial hatred : representation in Jamaica Kincaid's See now then / Gonçalo Cholant
The rebirth of the myth of the American hero and feminism / Rita Santos
Dancing resistance, controlling singing and right to name heritage : Mexican indigenous autonomy, p'urepecha, practices, and United Nations / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Carey McWilliams's activism and the democratic human rights tradition / María José Canelo
The ontogenesis of fear in Héctor Tobar's The barbarian nurseries / Alexander Ullman
Brazilian quilombos : castaínho and its struggle for human rights / Wellington Marinho de Lira
Capá Prieto and the decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American imagination / Luz Angélica Kirschner
'We got Latin soul' : transbarrio dialogues and Afro-Latin identity formation in New York's Puerto Rican community during the age of Black Power (1966-1972) / Matti Steinitz
From racism to speciesism : the question of the freedom of the other in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Jure Detela / Marjetka Golež Kauĉiĉ
To be or not to be human : the plasticity of posthuman rights / Nicole Sparling Barco.
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