Power interrupted : antiracist and feminist activism inside the United Nations / Sylvanna M. Falcón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falcón, Sylvanna M., author.

Series:

Decolonizing feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights movements.

Anti-racism.

Feminism.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016.

Summary:

Power Interrupted redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Sylvanna M. Falcón's analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, considers how an intersectional approach broadened opportunities for feminist organizing at the global level. Using a combination of interviews, participant observation, and extensive archival data, Falcón situates contemporary antiracist feminist organizing from the Americas-specifically the activism of feminists of color from the United States and Canada, and feminists from Mexico and Peru-alongside a critical historical reading of the UN and its agenda against racism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: the challenging road to the Durban conference

Race, gender, and geopolitics in the establishment of the UN

UN citizenship and constellations of human rights

A genealogy of world conferences against racism and the progression of intersectionality

Making the intersectional connections

Intersectionality as the new universalism

Appendix: copy of the e-mail and non-paper sent by the US government to US NGOs during the preparatory period of the WCAR 2001

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.

ISBN:

9780295995250

0295995254

9780295995267

0295995262

OCLC:

933273539