Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights [Paperback]

Faye V. Harrison's collection of essays focuses on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality that exert a huge influence on human rights conflicts around the world. Using compelling examples, the authors illustrate the central premise that understanding the dynamics of these intersections has important implications for effectively confronting oppression and constructing positive change. Investigating conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, they also reflect upon political concerns and anxieties worldwide that have grown out of the catasrophe of 9/11. The contributors comprise an internationally diverse group of anthropologists and human rights activists concerned with global, culturally diverse, gendered experiences. This anthology will be valuable to instructors, human rights workers, and applied professionals in anthropology, gender studies, ethnic studies, and international human rights.Faye V. Harrison is Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women.

1 Introduction: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and Interlocking Inequalities of Race, Gender and Related Dimensions of Power
2 PART I. A Post-Durban and Post-September 11 View From the South
3 Ch. 1: Finding Strategic Identities in an Unequal World: Feminist Reflections From India
4 PART II: Gendered Communities in Crisis and Struggle
5 Ch. 2: Metaphors of Race and Caste-Based Discriminations Against Dalits and Dalit Women in India
6 Ch. 3: Margins of Democracy: Aboriginal Australians and Inequality
7 Ch. 4: Desperately Seeking Justice: Women of Color in Springfield, Missouri and Their Quest for Civil and Human Rights
8 Ch. 5: Welfare Reform, Racism, and Single Motherhood in the Americas
9 PART III: Sexual Matters in Work, Health, and Ethnonational Politics
10 Ch. 6: Structurally Adjusted Intercourse: ExoticizedlÓf