Resisting Racism and Xenophobia
Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights
Published on 15. September 2005
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-7591-0481-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
California
United States
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7591-0481-5 (9780759104815)
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Persons
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.
Content
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: Exoticized Sex Workers and Anthropological Agency
11 Ch. 7: Intersections of Gender, Race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa
12 Ch. 8: The Role of Zanzibari Women in the Human Rights Conflict with Tanzania over Sovereignty
13 PART IV: New Diasporas: Refugees and Immigrants
14 Ch. 9: The Second Coming: African Women as a Racialized Transmigrant Group in a Canadian Context
15 Ch. 10: Weaving Identities: Refugees, Immigrants, and Local People in a European World of Differences
16 Ch. 11: My Country in Translation
17 PART V: Negotiating Diversity & the War on Terrorism
18 Ch. 12: Diversity Training Doesn't Get to the Heart of the Matter
19 Ch. 13: What Democracy Looks Like: The Politics of a Women-Centered, Anti-Racist Human Rights Coalition
20 Ch. 14: Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation
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: Exoticized Sex Workers and Anthropological Agency
11 Ch. 7: Intersections of Gender, Race, and HIV/AIDS in Africa
12 Ch. 8: The Role of Zanzibari Women in the Human Rights Conflict with Tanzania over Sovereignty
13 PART IV: New Diasporas: Refugees and Immigrants
14 Ch. 9: The Second Coming: African Women as a Racialized Transmigrant Group in a Canadian Context
15 Ch. 10: Weaving Identities: Refugees, Immigrants, and Local People in a European World of Differences
16 Ch. 11: My Country in Translation
17 PART V: Negotiating Diversity & the War on Terrorism
18 Ch. 12: Diversity Training Doesn't Get to the Heart of the Matter
19 Ch. 13: What Democracy Looks Like: The Politics of a Women-Centered, Anti-Racist Human Rights Coalition
20 Ch. 14: Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation