Human Rights and the Uses of History keyword-diaspora Directed against the contracting limits

Directed against the contracting limits of tolerance

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Peter Ghosh

Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical “history” taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora

Human Rights and the Uses of History keyword-diaspora Directed against the contracting limitsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling. Having