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Resisting racism and xenophobia : global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights

Title
Resisting racism and xenophobia : global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights / edited by Faye V. Harrison.
Publication
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Harrison, Faye Venetia.
Description
xii, 283 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Human rights
  • Sex discrimination against women
  • Racism
  • Equality
  • Marginality, Social
  • Immigrants > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: global perspectives on human rights and interlocking inequalities of race, gender, and related dimensions of power / Faye V. Harrison -- Finding strategic identities in an unequal world: feminist reflections from India / Devaki Jain -- Metaphors of race and caste-based discriminations against dalits and dalit women in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- Margins of democracy: aboriginal Australians and inequality / J. Maria Pedersen -- Desperately seeking justice: women of color in Springfield, Missouri, and their quest for civil and human rights / Cheryl Fischer -- Welfare reform, racism, and single motherhood in the Americas / Helen I. Safa -- Structurally adjusted intercourse: exoticized sex workers and anthropological agency / Melissa D. Hargrove -- Intersections of gender, race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Esther I. Njiro -- The role of sexual violence against Zanzibari women in the human rights conflict with Tanzania over sovereignty / Fatma Jiddawi Napoli and Mohamed Ahmed Saleh -- The second coming: African women as a racialized transmigrant group in a Canadian context / Philomina E. Okeke -- Weaving identities: refugees, immigrants, and local people in a European world of differences / Jan Delacourt -- My country in translation / Gina Ulysse -- Diversity training doesn't get to the heart of the matter / Camille Hazeur and Diana Hayman -- What democracy looks like: the politics of a women-centered, antiracist human rights coalition / Faye V. Harrison -- Confronting hegemony, resisting occupation / Fadwa El Guindi.
Call Number
Sc E 05-1370
ISBN
  • 0759104816 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0759104824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005024205
OCLC
61689796
Title
Resisting racism and xenophobia : global perspectives on race, gender, and human rights / edited by Faye V. Harrison.
Imprint
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Harrison, Faye Venetia.
Research Call Number
Sc E 05-1370
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