Resisting racism and xenophobia : global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights / edited by Faye V. Harrison. - xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Human rights.
Sex discrimination against women
Racism.
Equality.
Marginality, Social
Immigrants--Social conditions

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