Human rights, race, and resistance in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Toyin Falola and Cacee Hoyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Hoyer, Cacee, editor.

Series:

Routledge African studies ; 22.

Routledge African studies ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Social conditions.

Black people--Civil rights.

Africa--Race relations.

Africa.

Race relations.

Black people--Civil rights--Africa.

Black people.

Human rights.

African diaspora--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Human rights as natural rights : the quest for a theoretical grounding

Exploring the social protection right of the African child

Untangling discursive reproduction : negras, sterilization, and reproductive rights in Brazil

Human rights and physical capital : panacea to sustainable development in Africa

Yearning for whiteness : racial identification among the coloureds of Antigua, 1660s-1860s

The African drum, Bantu world and South African-United States transnational linkages, 1949-1954

Organized labor and the struggle for black and working-class citizenship in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1899-1902

State violence, radical protest and the black/African female body

Revolution at the crossroads : re-framing the Haitian revolution from the heights of Platons

Uprooted : African Americans in Mexico; international propaganda, migration, and the resistance against U.S. racial hegemony

Re-membering Samson otherwise : resistance, revolution, and relationality within the carnivalesque-creolized chronotope of Judges 13-16a.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138679887

1138679887

OCLC:

960086445