The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence
By (Author) Randall Williams
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
21st June 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Globalization
Political science and theory
323
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rightsoften taken for granted as a force for good in the worldcorresponds 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 Miville, Williams insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity.
Author Bio
Randall Williams is an instructor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has been involved with various social movements from ACT UP to the recently formed Teachers Against Occupation.
