Human rights, race, and resistance in Africa and the African diaspora /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Toyin Falola and Cacee Hoyer.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 233 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge African studies ;
Volume Designation
22
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Human rights as natural rights : the quest for a theoretical grounding / Wanjala S. Nasong'o -- Exploring the social protection right of the African child / Rachael Ojima Agarry -- Untangling discursive reproduction : negras, sterilization, and reproductive rights in Brazil / Ugo Felicia Edu -- Human rights and physical capital : panacea to sustainable development in Africa / Jonathan Ali Ogwuche -- Yearning for whiteness : racial identification among the coloureds of Antigua, 1660s-1860s / Nsaka Sesepkekiu -- The African drum, Bantu world and South African-United States transnational linkages, 1949-1954 / Derek Charles Catsam -- Organized labor and the struggle for black and working-class citizenship in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1899-1902 / Bonnie A. Lucero -- State violence, radical protest and the black/African female body / Kanyinsola O. Obayan -- Revolution at the crossroads : re-framing the Haitian revolution from the heights of Platons / Michael Becker -- Uprooted : African Americans in Mexico; international propaganda, migration, and the resistance against US racial hegemony / Alfredo Aguilar -- Re-membering Samson otherwise : resistance, revolution, and relationality in a Rastafari reading of Judges 13-16 / A. Paige Rawson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters. This book addresses these issues and their connections to social justice, discrimination, and equality movements. From colonial abuses or their legacies, black people around the world have historically encountered discrimination, and yet they do not experience injustice opaquely. The chapters in this book explore and clarify how Africans, and their descendants, struggled to achieve agency despite long histories of discrimination. Contributors draw upon a range of case studies related to resistance, and examine these in conjunction with human rights and the concept of race to provide a thorough exploration of the diasporic experience. Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora will appeal to students and scholars of Ethnic and Racial Studies, African History, and Diaspora Studies." -- Publisher's description