The Divided World : Human Rights and Its Violence /

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Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, this book shows how the concept of human rights - often taken for granted as a force for good in the world - corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Randall, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political violence.
Human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
terrorism.
Violence politique.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, this book shows how the concept of human rights - often taken for granted as a force for good in the world - corresponds 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, the text insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780816673506

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