The Divided World - 9780816665426

The Divided WorldHuman Rights and Its Violence\nAuthor(s): Randall Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816665426, 978-0816665426\nSynopsis\nTaking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rights-often taken for granted as a force for good in the world-corresponds directly with [url] 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 [url] the emphasis on international human rights since World War II, Williams notes that the discourse of human rights has consistently reinforced the concerns of the ascendant global power of the United States. He demonstrates how the alignment of human rights with the interests of [url] expansion is not a matter of direct cont.