Public Books: The World of Asian American Studies

Includes review of WRITING HUMAN RIGHTS by Crystal Parikh.

Writing Human Rights (Crystal Parikh)Another example of how rich the transnational turn has been for contemporary scholarship in Asian American studies, Crystal Parikh’s Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color insists that we not dismiss human rights as a hopelessly flawed idea. This is because the idea names a crucial set of propositions: that “all human beings are … equal with respect to rights,” that “these rights are … not contingent on the whims of political authority,” and that “any government’s legitimacy depends upon its ability to secure these rights for its subjects.”

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By: MIN HYOUNG SONG