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1st Edition

Human Rights in the Americas

Edited By María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí, Luz Angélica Kirschner Copyright 2021
334 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. The essays use a variety of approaches to reveal the larger... Read more

Introduction: Human Rights in the Americas

Luz Angélica Kirschner, María Herrera-Sobek, and Francisco A. Lomelí

I Early Origins of Human Rights

1 "Human Rights in the Americas: A Stony Path"

Josef Raab

2 "Constructing Rights and Empires in the Early Americas: The Parallel Reception Histories of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Cotton Mather"

Philipp Reisner

3 "Maps of Violence, Maps of Resistance, or Where is Home in the Americas?"

Roland Walter

II Human Rights in Central America and the Caribbean

4 "The Human Rights Situation in Central America through the Lens of Literary Representation and Violence"

Xaver Daniel Hergenröther

5 "Rebellion, Repression, Reform: U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic"

Breanne Robertson

III Human Rights and Gender

6 "Black Women Writers in the Americas: The Struggle for Human Rights in the Context of Coloniality"

Isabel Caldeira

7 "Autobiography, Fiction, and Racial Hatred: Representation in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then"

Gonçalo Cholant

8 "The Rebirth of the Myth of the American Hero and Feminism"

Rita Santos

IV Human Rights: Mexican Indigenous Groups and Mexican Americans (Chicanx)

9 "Dancing Resistance, Controlling Singing and Right to Name Heritage: Mexican Indigenous Autonomy, P’urepecha, Practices, and United Nations"

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

10 "Carey McWilliams’s Activism and the Democratic Human Rights Tradition"

María José Canelo

11 "The Ontogenesis of Fear in Héctor Tobar’s, The Barbarian Nurseries"

Alexander Ullman

V Human Rights: Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinas/os, and Latinas/os

12 "Brazilian Quilombos: Castaínho and Its Struggle for Human Rights"

Wellington Marinho de Lira

13 "Capá Prieto and the Decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American Imagination"

Luz Angélica Kirschner

14 "‘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

VI Human Rights, Animals Rights, and Posthuman Rights

15 "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

16 "To Be or Not To Be Human: The Plasticity of Posthuman Rights"

Nicole Sparling Barco

Biography

María Herrera-Sobek is Professor Emerita from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked from 1997-2019.

Francisco A. Lomelí is Professor Emeritus from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has worked and taught in both the Spanish & Portuguese and Chicana/o Studies since 1978.

Luz Angélica Kirschner is an Assistant Professor in the School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University.

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