Reading the “Outsider Within”: Counter-Narratives of Human Rights in Black Women’s Fiction

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shane McCoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2015-10-01
Series:Radical Teacher
Online Access:http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/228