Remembering the Rescuers of Vicb

This volume explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes, protecting and sheltering targeted victims including the dead during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence and testimonial memories documenting dictatorships, war and genocide, and the continued human rights groups mobilization to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and its discursive studies to focus on those whose moral courage and righteous acts were beacons for good in the midst of extreme violence.Remembering Latin American righteousness, a term used in Holocaust literature, is important in recognizing that those who resisted human rights violations and protected victims yesterday are those who often keep the collective memory of that past alive today."

Summary

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims—including the dead—during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. It moves past a victim – perpetrator dichotomy to focus on those whose righteous acts were beacons for good in the midst of extreme violence.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carla De Ycaza (Editor), De Ycaza Carla (Editor), Marcia Esparza (Editor), Esparza Marcia (Editor), Carla de Ycaza (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781498533263
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3326-3
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Latin America, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights