Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly
enslaved and colonized peoples? This trenchant book brings human
rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of
Western colonialism and slavery. Colin Samson examines the paradox
that the nations that credit themselves with formulating universal
human rights were colonial powers, settler colonists and sponsors
of enslavement. Samson points out that many liberal theorists
supported colonialism and slavery, and how this illiberalism plays
out today in selective, often racist processes of recognition and
enforcement of human rights. To reveal the continuities between
colonial histories and contemporary events, Samson connects
British, French and American colonial theories and practice to the
notion of non-universal human rights. Vivid illustrations and case
studies of racial exceptions to human rights are drawn from the
afterlives of the enslaved and colonized, as well as recent events
such as American police killings of black people, the treatment of
Algerian harkis in France, the Windrush scandal in Britain and the
militarized suppression of the Standing Rock Water Protectors
movement. Advocating for reparative justice and indigenizing law,
Samson argues that such events are not a failure of liberalism so
much as an inbuilt racial dynamic of it.
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