Power interrupted : antiracist and feminist activism inside the United Nations

Author/Creator:

Falcón, Sylvanna M., author

Publication/Creation:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

1st edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Power interrupted : antiracist and feminist activism inside the United Nations / Sylvanna M. Falcón

Series Titles:

Decolonizing feminisms

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Human rights
Human rights movements
Anti-racism
Feminism
Social justice

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: the challenging road to the Durban conference -- Race, gender, and geopolitics in the establishment of the UN -- UN citizenship and constellations of human rights -- A genealogy of world conferences against racism and the progression of intersectionality -- Making the intersectional connections -- Intersectionality as the new universalism -- Appendix: copy of the e-mail and non-paper sent by the US government to US NGOs during the preparatory period of the WCAR 2001 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiv, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936550030002486

ISBN:

9780295995250
0295995254
9780295995267
0295995262

OCLC Number:

933273539