Human rights, race, and resistance in Africa and the African diaspora /
Human rights, race, and resistance in Africa and the African diaspora /
edited by Toyin Falola and Cacee Hoyer.
- xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
- Routledge African studies ; 22 .
- Routledge African studies ; 22. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human rights as natural rights : the quest for a theoretical grounding -- Exploring the social protection right of the African child -- Untangling discursive reproduction : negras, sterilization, and reproductive rights in Brazil -- Human rights and physical capital : panacea to sustainable development in Africa -- Yearning for whiteness : racial identification among the coloureds of Antigua, 1660s-1860s -- The African drum, Bantu world and South Africa-United States transnational linkages, 1949-1954 -- Organized labor and the struggle for black and working-class citizenship in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1899-1902 -- State violence, radical protest and the black/African female body -- Revolution at the crossroads : re-framing the Haitian revolution from the heights of Platons -- Uprooted : African Americans in Mexico; international propaganda, migration, and the resistance against US racial hegemony -- Re-membering Samson OtherWise : resistance, revolution, and relationality in a Rastafari reading of Judges 13-16.
9781138679887 (hardback) 9781315543819 (ebook)
2016009875
Blacks--Civil rights--Africa.
Human rights.
African diaspora--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Africa--Race relations.
DT15.HUM 2018
302.896
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human rights as natural rights : the quest for a theoretical grounding -- Exploring the social protection right of the African child -- Untangling discursive reproduction : negras, sterilization, and reproductive rights in Brazil -- Human rights and physical capital : panacea to sustainable development in Africa -- Yearning for whiteness : racial identification among the coloureds of Antigua, 1660s-1860s -- The African drum, Bantu world and South Africa-United States transnational linkages, 1949-1954 -- Organized labor and the struggle for black and working-class citizenship in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1899-1902 -- State violence, radical protest and the black/African female body -- Revolution at the crossroads : re-framing the Haitian revolution from the heights of Platons -- Uprooted : African Americans in Mexico; international propaganda, migration, and the resistance against US racial hegemony -- Re-membering Samson OtherWise : resistance, revolution, and relationality in a Rastafari reading of Judges 13-16.
9781138679887 (hardback) 9781315543819 (ebook)
2016009875
Blacks--Civil rights--Africa.
Human rights.
African diaspora--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Africa--Race relations.
DT15.HUM 2018
302.896