Description: Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rightsoften taken for granted as a force for good in the worldcorresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Miville, Williams insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity.
