Invoking human rights and transnational activism in Racial justice struggles at home: US antiracist activists and the UN committee to eliminate racial discrimination

Societies without Borders

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-316

  Falcón, Sylvanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ANTIRACISM; COMMITTEE TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; UNITED NATIONS

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650330530     PISSN: 18718868     EISSN: 18721915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187188609X12492771031537     Document Type: Article

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