Human Rights in the Americas

<p>This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas. </p><p>The essays use a variety of approaches to reveal the larger contexts from which they emerge providing a cross-sectional view of subjects countries methodologies and foci explicitly dedicated toward understanding historical factors and circumstances that have shaped human rights nationally and internationally within the Americas. The chapters explore diverse cultural philosophical political and literary expressions where human rights discourses circulate across the continent taking into consideration issues such as race class gender genealogy and nationality. While acknowledging the ongoing centrality of the nation the volume promotes a shift in the study of the Americas as a dynamic transnational space of conflict domination resistance negotiation complicity accommodation dialogue and solidarity where individuals nations peoples institutions and intellectual and political movements share struggles experiences and imaginaries. </p><p>It will be of interest to all scholars and students of InterAmerican studies and those from all disciplines interested in Human Rights.</p>