Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers

Royster and Cochran use the words of African American women writers to enrich our view of intersections between American civil rights discourses and the discourses of human rights as a global concept. They focus on both individual and collective activities of the women and contextualize this activis...

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Published inRhetoric Society quarterly Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 213 - 230
Main Authors Royster, Jacqueline Jones, Cochran, Molly
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Raleigh Taylor & Francis Group 01.05.2011
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Activism
African American studies
African Americans
Civil rights
Countries
Discourse analysis
Human rights
International languages
International relations
Language history
Peacetime
Social justice
United States history
Women
Womens rights
World wars
Writers
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ISSN0277-3945
1930-322X
DOI10.1080/02773945.2011.575322

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Summary:Royster and Cochran use the words of African American women writers to enrich our view of intersections between American civil rights discourses and the discourses of human rights as a global concept. They focus on both individual and collective activities of the women and contextualize this activism within the larger framework of the rise of individual human rights language in twentieth century international relations.
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ISSN:0277-3945
1930-322X
DOI:10.1080/02773945.2011.575322