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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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-10-01
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Series: | Radical Teacher |
Online Access: | http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/228 |