Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on contemporary issues such as immigration, colonialism, and reparations are used to illustrate how the U.S. and the rest of the world are inextricably linked in their relationships to human rights violations and social inequality.

As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on contemporary issues such as immigration, colonialism, and reparations are used to illustrate how the U.S. and the rest of the world are inextricably linked in their relationships to human rights violations and social inequality. Contributors include Judith Blau, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, and Joe R. Feagin.

Chapter 1 Chapter One: The New Global World: America's World and the World's America
Part 2 Part I: Race/Racism in the United States
Chapter 3 Chapter Two: "Look, a Negro": Reflections on the Human Rights Approach to Racial Inequality
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: The Diversity Ideology: Keeping Major Transnational Corporations White and Male in an era of Globalization
Part 5 Part II: Introduction to Reparations Chapters
Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Jim Crow and the Case for Reparations: Lessons from the African Diaspora
Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Bringing Down the House: Reparations, Universal Morality, Human Rights and Social Justice
Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Paying for the Past: Prospects and Obstacles Facing Reparations Politics in the U.S. and South Africa
Part 9 Part III: Introduction to Immigration Issues
Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Immigrant Rights as Human Rights
Chapter 11 Chapter Eight: "Aliens", "Illegals" and Other Types of "Mexicanness": Examination of Racial Profiling in Border Policing
Chapter 12 Chapter Nine: El Sueño Americano? Barriers to Homeownership for Mexican-Origin Populations
Chapter 13 Chapter Ten: No Phone, No Vehicle, No English, and No Citizenship: The Vulnerability of Latino Immigrants in the United States
Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven: Border Sexual Conquest: A Framework for Gendered and Racial Sexual Violence
Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve: Israeli Fashion and Palestinian Labor during the Intifada
Part 16 Part IV: Introduction to The Intersection Between Global and Local Human Rights
Chapter 17 Chapter Thirteen: Constitutions and Human Rights
Chapter 18 Chapter Fourteen: Twenty-First Century Globalization and the Social Forum Process: Building Today's Global Justice and Equality Movement
Chapter 19 Chapter Fifteen: The Globalization of the U. S. Prison Industrial Complex
Chapter 20 Chapter Sixteen: America's World and the World's America: Conclusions and recommendations for addressing inequalities and human rights violations