2015
DOI: 10.5195/rt.2015.228
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Reading the “Outsider Within”: Counter-Narratives of Human Rights in Black Women’s Fiction

Abstract: In Pedagogies of Crossing (2005), M. Jacqui Alexander asserts that human rights are not rights at all; in fact, human rights does little to mitigate the violence perpetuated by late capitalism and the legacies of imperialism and colonialism. Alexander’s point of contention brings to bear the fact that the passing of human rights by the United Nations, among other groups, institutes a “dominant knowledge framework” that does nothing to mitigate the violence perpetuated by unequal power structures (2005; 124). M… Show more

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