Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Role of sexual violence against Zanzibari women in the human rights conflict with Tanzania over sovereignty / Fatma Jiddawi Napoli and Mohamed Ahmed Saleh -- 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.