Human Rights in the Americas (InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Human rights in the Americas
PART 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?
PART II: Human rights in Central America and the Caribbean
	4. Human rights situation in Central America through the lens of literary representations of violence
	5. Rebellion, repression, reform: U.S. Marines in the
Dominican Republic
PART 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 ThenAutobiography, fiction, and racial hatred representation in Jamaica Kincaids See Now Then
	8. The rebirth of the myth of the American hero and feminism
PART IV: Human rights: Mexican Indigenous groups andMexican Americans (Chicanx)
	9. Dancing resistance, controlling singing and rights to name heritage: Mexican Indigenous autonomy, P’urhépecha practices, and United Nations
	10. Carey McWilliams’ activism and the democratic
human rights tradition
	11. The ontogenesis of fear in Héctor Tobar’s
The Barbarian Nurseries
PART V: Human rights: Afro-Brazilians and Afro-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 dialogs and Afro-Latin
identity formation in New York’s Puerto Rican community
during the age of Black Power (1966–1972)
PART VI: Human right, animals rights, and posthuman rights
	15. From racism to speciesism: The question of 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 rightsThe plasticity of posthuman rights
Index