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Resisting racism and xenophobia : global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights / edited by Faye V. Harrison.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xii, 283 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0759104816
  • 9780759104815
  • 0759104824
  • 9780759104822
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1 22
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .R4752 2005
Contents:
Introduction : global perspectives on human rights and interlocking inequalities of race, gender, and related dimensions of power / Faye V. Harrison -- 1. Finding strategic identities in an unequal world : feminist reflections from India / Devaki Jain -- 2. Metaphors of race and caste-based discriminations against Dalits and Dalit women in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- 3. Margins of democracy : aboriginal Australians and inequality / J. Maria Pedersen -- 4. Desperately seeking justice : women of color in Springfield, Missouri, and their quest for civil and human rights / Cheryl Fischer -- 5. Welfare reform, racism, and single motherhood in the Americas / Helen I. Safa -- 6. Structurally adjusted intercourse : exoticized sex workers and anthropological agency / Melissa D. Hargrove -- 7. Intersections of gender, race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Esther I. Njiro -- 8. The role of sexual violence against Zanzibari women in the human rights conflict with Tanzania over sovereignty / Fatma Jiddawi Napoli and Mohamed Ahmed Saleh -- 9. The second coming : African women as a racialized transmigrant group in a Canadian context / Philomina E. Okeke -- 10. Weaving identities : refugees, immigrants, and local people in a European world of differences / Jan Delacourt -- 11. My country in translation / Gina Ulysse -- 12. Diversity training doesn't get to the heart of the matter / Camille Hazeur and Diana Hayman -- 13. What democracy looks like : the politics of a women-centered, antiracist human rights coalition / Faye V. Harrison -- 14. Confronting hegemony, resisting occupation / Fadwa El Guindi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : global perspectives on human rights and interlocking inequalities of race, gender, and related dimensions of power / Faye V. Harrison -- 1. Finding strategic identities in an unequal world : feminist reflections from India / Devaki Jain -- 2. Metaphors of race and caste-based discriminations against Dalits and Dalit women in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- 3. Margins of democracy : aboriginal Australians and inequality / J. Maria Pedersen -- 4. Desperately seeking justice : women of color in Springfield, Missouri, and their quest for civil and human rights / Cheryl Fischer -- 5. Welfare reform, racism, and single motherhood in the Americas / Helen I. Safa -- 6. Structurally adjusted intercourse : exoticized sex workers and anthropological agency / Melissa D. Hargrove -- 7. Intersections of gender, race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Esther I. Njiro -- 8. The role of sexual violence against Zanzibari women in the human rights conflict with Tanzania over sovereignty / Fatma Jiddawi Napoli and Mohamed Ahmed Saleh -- 9. The second coming : African women as a racialized transmigrant group in a Canadian context / Philomina E. Okeke -- 10. Weaving identities : refugees, immigrants, and local people in a European world of differences / Jan Delacourt -- 11. My country in translation / Gina Ulysse -- 12. Diversity training doesn't get to the heart of the matter / Camille Hazeur and Diana Hayman -- 13. What democracy looks like : the politics of a women-centered, antiracist human rights coalition / Faye V. Harrison -- 14. Confronting hegemony, resisting occupation / Fadwa El Guindi.

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