Human rights in the Americas / edited by María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Luz Angélica Kirschner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herrera-Sobek, María, editor.

Lomelí, Francisco A., editor.

Kirschner, Luz Angélica, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

InterAmerican research

Inter-American research : contact, communication, conflict

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Latin America.

Human rights.

Black people.

Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Latin America.

Human rights in literature.

Indigenous peoples--Latin America--Social conditions.

Black people--Latin America--Social conditions.

Women--Latin America--Social conditions.

Women.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 313 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Human rights in the Americas.

ISBN:

9781003120315

1003120318

9781000359732

1000359735

9781000359657

1000359654

9781000359695

1000359697

Publisher Number:

99988204104

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Restricted for use by site license.