Culture, Nationhood, and the Human Rights Ideal

Authors

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, University of Florida Levin College of LawFollow
Sharon E. Rush, University of Florida Levin College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

OCLC FAST subject heading

Civil rights

Abstract

This paper was written as a part of a Symposium on Culture, Nation, and LatCrit (Latina/o Communities and Critical Race) Theory and focuses on the concept of voice and silence. Part I locates the works in the axis of silence and power. Part II explores how critical theory and international human rights norms can be used to develop a methodology to analyze and detect the exclusion or silencing of voices. A paradigm is developed that, by internationalizing voice, serves as a useful tool to explore power-based silencing. In Part III, the article illustrates how the proposed paradigm can focus the issues of culture and nation in a way that encourages a non-essentialist, anti-subordination, inclusive personhood ideal.

Recommended Citation

Berta E. Hernández-Truyol & Sharon Elizabeth Rush, Culture, Nationhood, and the Human Rights Ideal, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 817, 33 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 233 (2000) (jointly published), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/442