Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is author of Architects and Firms The Shape of Culture Social Contracts and Economic Markets Race in the Schools and is coauthor with Alberto Moncada of Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision and Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U. S. Constitution. She is past-president of the Southern Sociological Society and president of the U. S. chapter of Sociologists without Borders. Keri E. Iyall Smith is assistant professor of sociology at Stonehill College in Easton MA. She teaches on the subjects of globalization race and ethnicity indigenous peoples social problems and introductory sociology. She has published articles in the fields of human rights and teaching sociology. . Language: English