UID:
almahu_9949386518602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xix, 313 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781003120315
,
1003120318
,
9781000359732
,
1000359735
,
9781000359657
,
1000359654
,
9781000359695
,
1000359697
Serie:
Inter-American research : contact, communication, conflict
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Human rights in the Americas. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367636913
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003120315
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003120315
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