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5 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. [i] (2008)

handle is hein.journals/hasrapo5 and id is 1 raw text is: Table of Contents ARTICLES REIMAGINING WORKERS' HUMAN RIGHTS: TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZING FOR A SOCIALLY AWARE GLOBAL ECONOMY By D ean H ubbard ............................................................. 1 This article illustrates a strategy to reconceptualize workers' rights activism to achieve systematic transformation of the global political economy emphasizing the disproportionate toll of neo-liberal economics on women, poor people, and people of color. The first section demonstrates the way in which existing structures in international human rights law can work to provide a normative foundation to this goal. The second section emphasizes the essential next step toward reaching this transformation in what the author terms, Socially Aware Global Economy (SAGE) organizing. SAGE organizing first, reimagines the labor movement through grass roots, transnational organizing, second, revitalizes economic human rights law by incorporating legal work and transformative organizing, and third, facilitates popular participation in the construction of alternative institutions and policies. These elements provide a framework through which global workers may find courage, and egalitarian, popular-democratic, systemic economic, and political transformation is possible. BLACK, WHITE, BROWN, GREEN, AND FORDICE: THE FLAVOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI By Alfreda A. Sellers Diamond ...................................... 57 Like many other states, Mississippi and Louisiana have struggled, and continue to struggle with the difficult problem of racial segregation in higher education. Through decades of litigation and negotiation, their higher education systems developed plans to equalize and unite the historically black and historically white institutions. The author's examination of Mississippi

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