ABSTRACT
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 contexts from which they emerge, providing a cross-sectional view of subjects, countries, methodologies and foci explicitly dedicated toward understanding historical factors and circumstances that have shaped human rights nationally and internationally within the Americas. The chapters explore diverse cultural, philosophical, political and literary expressions where human rights discourses circulate across the continent taking into consideration issues such as race, class, gender, genealogy and nationality. While acknowledging the ongoing centrality of the nation, the volume promotes a shift in the study of the Americas as a dynamic transnational space of conflict, domination, resistance, negotiation, complicity, accommodation, dialogue, and solidarity where individuals, nations, peoples, institutions, and intellectual and political movements share struggles, experiences, and imaginaries.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of InterAmerican studies and those from all disciplines interested in Human Rights.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|50 pages
Early origins of human rights
chapter 2|16 pages
Constructing rights and empires in the early Americas
part II|36 pages
Human rights in Central America and the Caribbean
part III|46 pages
Human rights and gender
chapter 1166|15 pages
Black women writers in the Americas
part IV|48 pages
Human Rights: Mexican Indigenous groups and Mexican Americans groups
chapter 1629|18 pages
Dancing resistance, controlling singing and rights to name heritage
part V|54 pages
Human rights: Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Latinas/os
chapter 14|20 pages
“We got Latin soul!”
part VI|32 pages
Human right, animals rights, and posthuman rights