Divided World Human Rights and Its Violence

Name: Divided World Human Rights and Its Violence
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ISBN: 9780816665426

ISBN-10: 0816665427

ISBN-13: 9780816665426

Edition: 2010

Authors: Randall Williams

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Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rightsoften taken for granted as a force for good in the worldcorresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Mieville, Williams insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity.Despite the emphasis on international human rights since World War II, Williams notes that the discourse of human rights has consistently reinforced the concerns of the ascendant global power of the United States. He demonstrates how the alignment of human rights…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: The International Division of Humanity



Conscience Denied: Amnesty International and the Antirevolution of the 1960s



Who Claims Modernity? The International Frame of Sexual Recognition



A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel Rwanda and Cachï¿½



Expiation for the Dispossessed: Truth Commissions, Testimonios, and Tyrannicide



Combat Theory: Anti-imperialist Analytics since Fanon


Coda: The Transition from Dumb to Smart Power


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