Resisting racism and xenophobia
Subtitle: global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights
By: edited by Faye V. Harrison
Contributors: Harrison, Faye Venetia
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Human rights; Sex discrimination against women; Racism; Equality; Marginality, Social; Immigrants -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: global perspectives on human rights and interlocking inequalities of race, gender, and related dimensions of power / Faye V. Harrison; title: Finding strategic identities in an unequal world: feminist reflections from India / Devaki Jain; title: Metaphors of race and caste-based discriminations against dalits and dalit women in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa; title: Margins of democracy: aboriginal Australians and inequality / J. Maria Pedersen; title: Desperately seeking justice: women of color in Springfield, Missouri, and their quest for civil and human rights / Cheryl Fischer; title: Welfare reform, racism, and single motherhood in the Americas / Helen I. Safa; title: Structurally adjusted intercourse: exoticized sex workers and anthropological agency / Melissa D. Hargrove; title: Intersections of gender, race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Esther I. Njiro; title: The role of sexual violence against Zanzibari women in the human rights conflict with Tanzania over sovereignty / Fatma Jiddawi Napoli and Mohamed Ahmed Saleh; title: The second coming: African women as a racialized transmigrant group in a Canadian context / Philomina E. Okeke; title: Weaving identities: refugees, immigrants, and local people in a European world of differences / Jan Delacourt; title: My country in translation / Gina Ulysse; title: Diversity training doesn't get to the heart of the matter / Camille Hazeur and Diana Hayman; title: What democracy looks like: the politics of a women-centered, antiracist human rights coalition / Faye V. Harrison; title: Confronting hegemony, resisting occupation / Fadwa El Guindi