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Author:   María Herrera-Sobek (Prof Emerita, University of California, USA) ,  Francisco Lomelí (University of California, USA) ,  Luz Angélica Kirschner (South Dakota State University, USA.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
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9780367636913

ISBN 10:   0367636913
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   09 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Human Rights in the Americas I Early Origins of Human Rights 1 ""Human Rights in the Americas: A Stony Path"" 2 ""Constructing Rights and Empires in the Early Americas: The Parallel Reception Histories of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Cotton Mather"" 3 ""Maps of Violence, Maps of Resistance, or Where is Home in the Americas?"" II Human Rights in Central America and the Caribbean 4 ""The Human Rights Situation in Central America through the Lens of Literary Representation and Violence"" 5 ""Rebellion, Repression, Reform: U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic"" III Human Rights and Gender 6 ""Black Women Writers in the Americas: The Struggle for Human Rights in the Context of Coloniality"" 7 ""Autobiography, Fiction, and Racial Hatred: Representation in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then"" 8 ""The Rebirth of the Myth of the American Hero and Feminism"" IV Human Rights: Mexican Indigenous Groups and Mexican Americans (Chicanx) 9 ""Dancing Resistance, Controlling Singing and Right to Name Heritage: Mexican Indigenous Autonomy, P’urepecha, Practices, and United Nations"" 10 ""Carey McWilliams’s Activism and the Democratic Human Rights Tradition"" 11 ""The Ontogenesis of Fear in Héctor Tobar’s, The Barbarian Nurseries"" V Human Rights: Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinas/os, and Latinas/os 12 ""Brazilian Quilombos: Castaínho and Its Struggle for Human Rights"" 13 ""Capá Prieto and the Decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American Imagination"" 14 ""‘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)"" VI Human Rights, Animals Rights, and Posthuman Rights 15 ""From Racism to Speciesism: The Question of the Freedom of the Other in the Works of J. M. Coetzee and Jure Detela"" 16 ""To Be or Not To Be Human: The Plasticity of Posthuman Rights"""

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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.

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