Problem,: What is the significance of some of the work of Etienne Balibar, Seyla Benhabib, Octavia Butler, Eric Foner, Nancy Foner, the Freedom writers, Michel Rolph Trouillot, and Immanuel Wallerstein and world systems analysis, and Ai Weiwei, for understanding the complex intersections of (Neo)racism, race, class, nation, civilizations, gender, and ethnic relations in modernity, including the question of "the rights of others"?